Totland is a settled village of about three thousand people, leaning older and heavily owned. The median age is sixty-one. Around three in four homes are owner-occupied. Only about one in seven residents falls into the twenty-five-to-forty-four working-age band. The demographic centre of gravity sits clearly above retirement age.
Home ownership dominates the tenure picture. About three in four homes are owner-occupied. Roughly one in five is privately rented. Around one in fourteen sits in social rental. That mix is a meaningful tilt towards ownership, even by rural-village standards. Renters are a real share but a small one, and the private rental stock that exists serves a narrower band than a comparable urban postcode would.
The median age is sixty-one. The twenty-five-to-forty-four age band makes up about fifteen percent of residents, which is roughly half the share that band carries in working-age towns. The reasons sit in plain view: no university within reach, no large employer within walking distance, and nothing on the western end of the island that holds younger working adults in place against the pull of larger towns. The shape is what it is, and it has been moving in this direction for some time.
The typical household income runs to roughly £40,000 a year. That is a middling figure for a rural English village, neither well-off nor strained. The after-tax figure sits at around £34,000. With about a third of households as one person and about one in five headed by a single pensioner, the income picture has a different shape from a working-age commuter town, and that shows up in the kind of services the village can sustain: enough to function, not enough to look like a town.
Household structure follows the age profile. About a third of households are single-person. About one in five is a single pensioner. Households with dependent children are fewer than one in ten. Lone-parent households make up a similar share. Overcrowding is essentially absent at about one home in a hundred. Long-term unemployment is very low. About three in ten adult residents hold a degree-level qualification, and about one in five hold no formal qualification, which is roughly the spread of a settled English village rather than a commuter town or a city suburb.
Who lives in Totland is what the data already tells you: older, settled, heavily owned, on middling incomes, often single, and largely without children at home. That is an average socio-economic mix in a particular age profile, neither prosperous nor struggling, and consistent year to year. The village fits the demographic shape, and the demographic shape fits the village.