Older people who already own the place, mostly. About three-quarters of homes are owner-occupied. The median resident is sixty. Barely one in six residents is between twenty-five and forty-four. More than a quarter of households are one person living alone. Trevone did not grow old. It is a village people move to once they already are, which is a different thing and shows up in every number the census collects.
On tenure, around 74% of households own their home outright or with a mortgage, roughly 17% rent privately, and about 1% rent socially. That last figure is small enough to be a rounding error, which means the entire rental market here is private and answerable to nobody but the market. Anyone hoping to rent long-term in Trevone is competing for a very small pool against people willing to pay for a week of it.
The age profile is the engine behind most of the rest. The median resident is 60 years old, and only about 16% of residents fall in the 25 to 44 band that most villages rely on to run the school gate, the football club and the evening trade. The population is weighted towards people who have finished doing whatever they moved here from.
Household income sits at roughly £45,200 gross before tax, or about £36,400 once tax comes out. That is a modelled figure describing the financial year to March 2023 rather than a live reading of what people earn today, and it covers the wider statistical area rather than the village alone. It also measures earnings rather than wealth, which in a place like this is the more interesting of the two and the one nobody publishes.
Families are present but not the dominant story. Around 14% of households are a couple with children, and about 1% are lone parents. That is not a village empty of children. It is a village where the children are outnumbered by the retired several times over, and where the school run is a short queue rather than a daily event.
The census in 2021, which is the source for every population figure here, put about 27% of households as one person living alone, with roughly 14% being a single pensioner. That second figure is a subset of the first rather than an addition to it, so the picture is a quarter of homes with one occupant, half of those being older people on their own. In a village with limited public transport, that is the single most practically important statistic on this page, and it is the one nobody thinks to check before they buy.
Qualifications land higher than the rural stereotype would predict. About 38% of residents hold a degree-level qualification, roughly 17% have none, and about 2% are full-time students. Educational backgrounds vary widely rather than running to a single type, with a professional weighting that generally arrived with the house purchase rather than growing up here.
Health self-reports are reasonable. Around 76% of residents describe their health as good or very good, and about 7% as bad or very bad, which is a fair result for a population this age. At the Cornwall level, smoking prevalence sits at about 12% and is rated similar to England, and preventable mortality is also rated similar to England. Those are council-area measures with an England benchmark rather than anything specific to this village.
Who lives here is the most ordinary thing about Trevone: comfortable, well qualified, heavily retired, and unremarkable in either direction once you account for the age of the place. The population is not the reason to move here or the reason to avoid it, and anyone hoping for a village full of people at the same life stage as them should check which stage that is first.