Wargrave is mostly homeowners in middle age, with money, degrees and good health. Eight in ten households own their home. The typical resident is in their late forties. Half the adults have a degree. Hardly anyone reports being in poor health. Most of them moved in some time ago and aren't planning to leave.
All the figures here cover the Wargrave area, which also includes Charvil, Knowl Hill and Sonning, and apart from income they come from the 2021 census. About 79% of households own their home. Around 12% rent privately and 9% rent from a social landlord. Renting here is a narrow way in, and most of the people living here came in by buying.
The typical resident is about 48. People aged 25 to 44 make up about 19% of the population, and that's the age group that usually buys a first home and fills the primary schools. Here it's the smaller group, and the middle-aged residents are in charge.
Household income averaged around £76,000 before tax in the financial year to March 2023. That figure is the Office for National Statistics' modelled estimate for the area, not a survey of current payslips. It describes households that are well off. It doesn't mean every household here is wealthy.
The household mix is more varied than the prices suggest. About 26% of households are couples with dependent children, and lone parents head about 7%. About 23% of households are one person living alone. That total includes pensioners living alone, who make up about 14% of all households. They are part of the 23%, not an extra group on top of it. Many of them are probably still in the family home the children grew up in.
On qualifications, about 51% of adults hold a degree or equivalent and about 10% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students make up about 2%. The area isn't a university town and isn't a student let market. The people here studied a long time ago and have been working since.
About 88% of residents describe their health as good or very good, and about 3% as bad or very bad. At the level of the Wokingham council area, not Wargrave on its own, the rate of deaths from preventable causes is better than the England average, and so is the smoking rate. Those are district figures measured against England, and they describe the district's statistics, not individual residents.
Wargrave's residents are one of its real strengths: well-off, well-educated, healthy and settled. The people who live here have little reason to move, and that is why homes here come up for sale so rarely.