Toddington is mostly home-owning, middle-aged couples with decent incomes. Three in four households own their home. The typical resident is in their mid-forties. A third have a degree. Most of the area's young adults have moved somewhere livelier.
The Toddington area, which takes in the village and its neighbours and has about 9,700 residents, is about 76% owner-occupied. Private renters make up about 15% of households and social renters about 9%. With so few rentals, newcomers mostly arrive by buying, and the rest grew up here.
The 2021 Census, which supplies every population figure on this page, puts the median age at 46. People aged 25 to 44 make up about 23% of residents. The village has plenty of people who did their house-hunting twenty years ago and a smaller generation behind them still saving up.
Typical household income across the area was about £69,000 before tax in the financial year to March 2023, a modelled figure from the Office for National Statistics for the area. That counts every earner in the household, before tax and before the commute is paid for. It's a comfortable figure, and most of it is earned outside the village.
About 25% of households are one person living alone, and 13% are a pensioner living alone, a group included within the first figure. Couples with dependent children make up about 22% of households and lone parents about 9%. The village has young families on one side and long-standing residents on the other.
About 35% of residents hold a degree, 14% have no formal qualifications and 2% are full-time students. With no college or university nearby, the few students here are mostly revising at their parents' kitchen tables.
About 85% of residents describe their health as good or very good, and around 4% as bad or very bad. Central Bedfordshire as a whole has a preventable death rate better than England's and a smoking rate of about 10%, close to the England figure. Those last two figures cover the whole council area, and nothing in them is specific to the people of Toddington.
Toddington's residents are among the more comfortable you'll find in this part of Bedfordshire. They own their homes, earn well, are mostly healthy and tend to stay put.