Wembley Park is mostly young adults who rent. About six in ten households rent. The typical resident is in their mid-thirties. Couples with children make up less than a fifth of households. This is a place people live in for a few years on the way to somewhere else.
At the 2021 census, about 39% of households owned their home and about 41% rented privately, with social housing making up most of the rest. Private renters outnumber owners, and the gap is wider in the new blocks than in the semis of Preston. For anyone buying a flat, it is worth asking the managing agent roughly how many flats in the block are owner-occupied, because that decides who turns up to residents' meetings and who cares when the lift breaks.
The median resident is 35, and about 34% of people are aged 25 to 44. That is a district made for people at the start of their working lives, who have moved here for the transport links and not for the schools or a garden. Plenty of them will leave once they want a second bedroom more than a short commute.
The Office for National Statistics models median household income at about £61,000 before tax for the financial year to March 2023. That is enough to rent near the stadium comfortably, but buying in Wembley Park on it usually means a deposit from somewhere else.
Lone parents make up about 13% of households, a group the area's rents and flat sizes do not make easy.
The rest of the household mix comes from the same census. About 23% of households are one person living alone, and about 8% are pensioners living alone, who are counted within that one-person figure. Couples with dependent children make up about 19%. Flat-sharers, couples without children and adult children still at home make up most of the remainder, which fits a neighbourhood of one- and two-bedroom flats.
About 40% of adults hold a degree or equivalent, about 21% have no qualifications and about 5% are full-time students. Graduates and residents with no formal qualifications both make up large groups here, often living in the same blocks.
About 86% of residents describe their health as good or very good. Across the London Borough of Brent, the preventable death rate is better than the England average, and the smoking rate is similar to England's. Those borough-wide figures say little about any particular street in Wembley Park.
About 2,500 people live in communal accommodation in Wembley Park, not in private households, and the area has 12 care homes. That group makes up a real share of the population, and it adds a small, older group to a district otherwise dominated by young renters.
As a neighbourhood community, Wembley Park is below average, because most people rent and many move on within a few years. A buyer here will usually own among neighbours who are only passing through.