White Waltham is mostly comfortably off families in early middle age who have got the big house and are now raising children in it. About seven in ten households own their home. The typical resident is in their mid-forties. More than four in ten adults have a degree. More than a quarter of households are couples with children still at home.
Most homes in White Waltham are owner-occupied, at about 69%. About 27% rent privately and about 5% from a social landlord. Renting here mostly means renting a family house from someone who has moved out of it, because the village has almost no flats to let.
The median age in White Waltham is 45. People aged 25 to 44 make up about 22% of residents. Younger adults leave for somewhere with a station and a pub that's open late, and many come back in their late thirties with a pushchair.
Typical household income in White Waltham, modelled by the Office for National Statistics, was about £76,800 a year before tax in the financial year to March 2023. After tax, the modelled figure was about £56,300. These are modelled figures from a few years back, and the gross one makes the household look richer than its monthly bank balance does.
Unemployment is about 3%, and the deprivation index moved White Waltham from the seventh decile in 2019 to the eighth in 2025. It is getting less deprived, which in Berkshire terms means more electric gates.
The 2021 Census, which supplies every population figure on this page, shows how the 329 households break down. About 27% are couples with dependent children and about 5% lone-parent households. About 23% are one person living alone, and about 12% of all households are a pensioner on their own, a group included within that 23%. The village has families in the bigger houses and long-standing residents on their own in houses bought many years ago.
About 44% of adults hold a degree or equivalent and about 12% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students make up about 2% of residents. With no college or campus nearby, the students who do live here are mostly local teenagers still living with their parents.
In the 2021 Census, about 88% of residents described their health as good or very good, and about 3% as bad or very bad. Across Windsor and Maidenhead as a whole, the local health profiles rate preventable deaths as better than the England average, and smoking, at about 7% of adults across the borough, as better too. Those are borough figures, not White Waltham's own, but the village doesn't stand out against them.
Most people in White Waltham are well-qualified families in owned homes, earning well and in good health. The village is quite homogeneous in age and income, and someone priced out of the big family houses is unlikely to move in.