Tring is home to settled, well-qualified homeowners, most of them in their middle years. Around three in four households own their home. The typical resident is in their mid-forties. More than four in ten adults have a degree. Most of the town finished house-hunting some time ago and is in no hurry to start again.
Every population figure here comes from the 2021 census, which counted about 12,200 people in Tring. About 73% of households own their home, about 14% rent privately and about 12% rent from a council or housing association. Renting is split almost evenly between private landlords and social housing, and both are a minority.
The median age is 44, and about 23% of residents are aged 25 to 44. Most of the town has moved past first homes and has not yet started thinking about downsizing.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income across the area at about £77,000 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. Thomas Butcher, a local seed and corn merchant, opened his own bank on Tring High Street in 1836, and the town still has the sort of residents who would have banked there.
About 30% of households are one person living alone, and about 15% of all households are a pensioner on their own, a subset of that figure. Couples with dependent children make up about 24% of households and lone parents about 8%. Tring is a family town and a retirement town at the same time, often on the same street.
About 43% of adults have a degree-level qualification, about 12% have no qualifications and about 2% are full-time students. Tring has no university and no student population to speak of. Gerald Massey, born at New Mill, was a poet, literary critic, Egyptologist and Spiritualist, and the town still has residents with more interests than one evening can hold.
Tring's residents are well paid, well qualified and mostly settled, and they are what makes the town worth buying into.