Most people in Tollesbury own their homes, and most are in middle age. About eight in ten households own outright or with a mortgage. The typical resident is nearly fifty. Comfortable incomes, few renters and not many young adults. The village is home to people in their middle years, and there are not many students.
Tollesbury has about 2,800 residents in 1,188 households, and all the population figures on this page come from the 2021 census. About 79% of households own their home, about 13% rent privately and about 8% rent social housing. With only one home in eight let privately, someone hoping to rent here may wait some time for a suitable house to come up.
The median age is 49, and adults aged 25 to 44 make up about 19% of residents. A typical resident here is past the age of the school run but well short of a bus pass, and in Tollesbury neither the school bus nor the ordinary bus offers much.
The Office for National Statistics models household income for the area at about £59,000 before tax, for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the wider neighbourhood the village sits in. That is a comfortable figure, but it averages working couples and retired households living on what they earned elsewhere.
About 26% of households are one person living alone, and about 14% of all households are a single pensioner, a group counted within the 26%. Couples with children make up about 19% of households and lone parents about 10%. That is a mix of grown-up households, with a smaller group of families, and plenty of three- and four-bedroom houses are home to one or two people.
About 27% of residents have a degree and about 15% have no qualifications. Full-time students make up about 1%. The education mix is that of a working village whose residents learned trades as well as went to university.
On who lives here, Tollesbury is middling: an older, owner-occupied village with steady incomes and few young adults or renters. Buyers looking for a lively social scene will find the village is settled, and most residents have no plans to move.