West Brompton is mostly well-qualified renters in their thirties and forties. Most households rent, and nearly half have one person in them. Incomes are high, degrees are common and children are fairly rare. It's a grown-up neighbourhood that has mostly skipped the school run.
About 36% of West Brompton's households own their home, about 38% rent privately and about 26% rent socially. The £900,000 flat, the private tenancy and the council tenancy all share the same stairwells here.
The median age is 39, and about 33% of residents are aged 25 to 44. That's an area of people with careers well under way, who haven't yet moved out to somewhere with a bigger garden.
The Office for National Statistics models median household income across the area at about £86,000 before tax for the financial year to March 2023. That figure is gross, so tax comes off before a penny of it reaches the rent, and plenty of it does reach the rent here.
Every population figure on this page comes from the 2021 census. About 44% of households are one person living alone, and about 12% are a single pensioner, who are part of that same 44%. Couples with dependent children make up about 12% of households, and lone parents about 10%. In a neighbourhood made mostly of flats, the most common household is one person and a front-door key.
About 60% of residents hold a degree, about 11% have no qualifications, and about 2% are full-time students. Most of the degrees were finished long ago and somewhere else. West Brompton isn't a student area. It's where the graduates live once the loans are paid down a bit.
About 86% of West Brompton's residents describe their health as good or very good. Kensington and Chelsea's rate of preventable deaths is better than England's, and its smoking rate, at about 8%, is similar to England's. Both are borough-wide figures and don't describe these streets on their own. Two centuries ago, Benjamin Rawlinson Faulkner, reputedly Queen Victoria's favourite portrait painter, lived here. Today's residents look healthy enough to sit for one.
West Brompton's population is a strong point. It's a well-educated, healthy mix of owners, private renters and social tenants, though one with fewer families than the size of its homes would suggest.