Windsor's most famous household is the royal family. The other thirteen thousand or so are mostly professionals in early middle age. Six in ten households own their home. The typical resident is in their early forties. Nearly half the adults have a degree. Most of the town is ordinary, well-off and busy with work.
About 60% of Windsor's households own their home, about 25% rent privately and about 15% rent from a social landlord. That rented share is high for a town this expensive, and it fits a place with a large professional workforce, a tourist trade and a royal estate that all need staff living nearby. Plenty of residents rent here, in a town whose most famous resident has never needed to.
The median age in Windsor is about 41. About 28% of residents are aged 25 to 44, the years of new jobs, first mortgages and young children, which leaves Windsor neither a retirement town nor a student one.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income at about £70,000 a year before tax, and about £52,700 after tax. Both figures are for the financial year to March 2023 and are averaged across the town's neighbourhoods, so they are a few years out of date. A household on that income can pay a Windsor mortgage on a flat with room to spare. It needs savings or equity for anything with a garden.
All the population figures here come from the 2021 Census. About 31% of households are one person living alone, and about 13% of households are a pensioner living alone, counted within that 31%. About 22% are couples with dependent children and about 9% are lone parents. The single households are mostly in the flats near the centre, and most of the families with children are in the houses further out.
About 45% of adults hold a degree or equivalent, about 12% have no formal qualifications, and about 1% are full-time students. Graduates form the largest group, and the town still has a sizeable share of people without qualifications.
About 87% of residents described their health as good or very good in the 2021 Census. Across Windsor and Maidenhead as a whole, the rate of deaths from preventable causes is better than the England benchmark, and so is the smoking rate, at about 7% of adults. These two figures are for the whole council area rather than Windsor alone.
Windsor is a stable, well-off and healthy town, though not an exclusive one. Its residents include the King, plenty of professionals and a fair number of renters.