Wood Green is lived in mostly by renters in their thirties and forties, many of them on their own or raising children. Fewer than four in ten households own their home. The typical resident is in their late thirties. A third of households are one person. The degree-holders and the people with no qualifications live on the same streets, and the money is tighter than the house prices suggest.
At the 2021 census, which supplies every population figure on this page, about 37% of Wood Green's households owned their home and another 37% rented privately, with about 25% in social housing. Owners and private tenants split the place almost exactly down the middle, and the social tenants hold the balance.
The median resident is 37, and about 37% of the population is aged between 25 and 44. Thirty-seven turns up so often in Wood Green's census that it could be the house number.
Household income averages about £69,000 a year before tax, a modelled figure from the Office for National Statistics for the financial year to March 2023. After tax, the same modelled figure comes to about £49,000, and that is the number the rent and the mortgage come out of.
About 30% of households are one person living alone, and about 8% are a single pensioner, who are part of that same group. Couples with children make up about 17% of households and lone parents about 15%. The family with two adults and a garden is a minority here, roughly level with the parent doing it alone, and the one-person flat outnumbers both.
About 44% of residents aged 16 and over hold a degree-level qualification, while about 21% have no qualifications at all. Full-time students are about 3%. Wood Green holds both ends of the qualifications table inside the same postcode, often in the same converted house.
About 84% of residents describe their health as good or very good. Across Haringey as a whole, preventable deaths run at a rate similar to England's, and about 19% of the borough's adults smoke, also similar to the England figure. Those are borough-wide numbers, set against England, so they describe Haringey and not Wood Green's own streets.
Wood Green is a young, renting, hard-working place where incomes are stretched against the cost of living there, and as a neighbourhood profile it comes out on the weaker side.