Upper Holloway is a mixed neighbourhood. Social housing is the largest tenure, graduates are the largest group by education, and quite a lot of people live on their own. Most households rent. The typical resident is in their mid-thirties. More than half hold a degree. Fewer than a third own their home.
At the 2021 census, which is the source for every population figure here, about 30% of Upper Holloway's households owned their home, about 28% rented privately, and about 40% rented from the council or a housing association. Social housing is the largest of the three, and private renting comes close to home ownership. Owners are in a minority on most streets.
The median age is 35, and about 38% of residents are aged 25 to 44. That is the age of the first serious job and the first flat that isn't shared, and for a lot of people here, still the age of renting.
The Office for National Statistics models median household income across the area at about £74,700 a year, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. That is a typical figure across 40,600 residents in 18,019 households, and it covers well-paid professionals and households on much less. Very few households actually earn the median.
About 36% of households are one person living alone, and about 9% of all households are pensioners living alone. Couples with dependent children make up about 13% of households, and lone parents about 15%. There are more lone-parent households than couples with children, and both are outnumbered by people living on their own. The typical household is a single adult in a one-bedroom flat.
About 56% of adults hold a degree, while about 14% have no formal qualifications, and only about 3% are full-time students. The graduates are mostly working adults, not undergraduates, since the student share is small. Upper Holloway takes in plenty of people with postgraduate training, though very few of them are still studying.
About 83% of residents described their health as good or very good at the census. For Islington as a whole, the preventable mortality rate is worse than the England average, and the borough's smoking rate of about 9% is similar to England's. Those borough figures cover far more people than Upper Holloway's streets, and they say nothing about any particular household here.
Upper Holloway is a middling, mixed place. Long-term social tenants, private renters on their way through and a minority of owners all live here, often in the same blocks.