Owner-occupiers in their fifties, in houses they have mostly finished paying for. Around three-quarters own. A quarter rent, and more of those rent from a social landlord than from a private one. The typical resident is fifty. This is a former mining village that never fully completed its conversion into a commuter postcard, and the housing mix is where you can still see it.
The tenure split is the most telling thing here. From the 2021 census, which is the source for the population figures throughout this answer, around 73% of households own their home outright or with a mortgage. Roughly 12% rent privately and about 14% rent socially. That social share is higher than the chocolate-box version of village Somerset would lead anyone to expect, and it exists because this place housed a workforce rather than a weekend crowd. The practical effect is a village that has not sorted itself entirely into one income bracket.
The age profile is older than the national middle without being a retirement settlement. The median age is 50. Adults aged 25 to 44 make up around 21% of residents, so the young-family cohort is present but not dominant. Nobody is buying here for the nightlife, and nobody is being surprised by that.
On money, modelled household income for the area came to roughly £62,600 in the financial year to March 2023, measured gross, before tax and before anything is taken off it. That figure describes that year rather than today, and it covers a wider modelled area than the village itself, so treat it as the shape of local earnings rather than the salary of the person next door.
Households divide in a way that suits the housing stock. Around 28% are single people living alone, and about 17% are single pensioners, which is a subset of that first figure rather than an addition to it. Couples with dependent children account for roughly 18%, and lone-parent households for about 8%. A village where more than a quarter of homes contain one person, and most of those people are older, is a village with a lot of three-bedroom houses occupied by one or two people who have no intention of downsizing.
Qualifications sit at both ends. Around 35% of residents hold a degree or equivalent, while about 18% hold no formal qualifications at all, and full-time students make up roughly 2%. That is a genuine mix rather than a graduate enclave, and it is what happens when a place with an industrial past acquires a professional present without evicting the past.
Health is good, on the residents' own account and on the wider measures. Around 82% report good or very good health, and about 4% report bad or very bad. For Bath and North East Somerset as a whole, which is a local-authority figure rather than the village's own, preventable mortality is better than the England benchmark, and the adult smoking rate of around 7% is also better than England. That is the authority's standing, not a claim about anyone here individually.
Who lives here is one of Timsbury's quieter strengths. Settled, mixed by tenure in a way most villages this pretty are not, and comfortable without being closed.