People who arrived at a destination rather than a stepping stone. Seven in ten own their homes. A third of households are one person living alone. The typical resident is past fifty, and the age band that usually fills a village with prams and noise is thin here. Tregony is not where lives get started. It is where they get settled.
On tenure, about 69% of households own, roughly 19% rent privately and about 12% rent socially. That ownership level is the single most defining number about this place, because it decides how often anything changes hands and how well everybody knows everybody. Renting exists here, but it exists in small numbers and on somebody else's timetable.
The age profile matches. The median resident is 52, and just 16% of the population falls in the 25 to 44 bracket that dominates most commuter towns. A village where one in six people sits in the prime career-building years is a village where the pub quiz has long memories and the school gate is a smaller scene than the graveyard.
Household income, modelled for this area, averaged about £47,600 gross for the financial year to March 2023. That is before tax and before anything else comes out of it, and it describes that year rather than this one. It is the income of households that mostly settled their housing situation some time ago, which is a different financial position from the same figure earned by someone still trying to buy in.
Family structures here skew away from the standard suburban picture. Lone-parent households account for about 9%, and couples with dependent children about 17%. Those are minority shapes in a place where most households contain either one person or two people whose children left some time ago.
The fuller household picture, drawn like every population figure on this page from the 2021 census, runs like this: about 33% of households are a single person, and about 23% are a single pensioner living alone, that second group being a subset of the first rather than an addition to it. Roughly 17% are couples with dependent children and about 9% are lone parents. Nearly a quarter of all households in this village being one older person on their own is the fact that should shape how anyone reads the rest. It explains the quiet, it explains the pace, and it explains why a village shop with a post office counter is not a convenience but an institution.
Educationally the mix is broad rather than lopsided. About 34% hold a degree-level qualification, about 14% hold none at all, and roughly 2% are full-time students. Those three figures sitting together describe a place where retired professionals and people who left school for work live on the same street, which is more common in rural Cornwall than in anywhere built after 1960.
Health reports well. About 76% describe their health as good or very good, and about 8% as bad or very bad, which for a population this age is a decent showing. At the Cornwall council level rather than the village's own, smoking prevalence runs at about 12% and is rated similar to England, and preventable mortality at about 140 per 100,000 is also rated similar to England. Those are county figures with a national benchmark attached, not a reading of this village.
The population here is comfortable, settled and narrow: strong on ownership and stability, short on the working-age households that keep a village's demographics from tipping one way. It sits in the middle, and it got there by being unusually good at one half of the picture and unusually thin on the other.