Wootton is home to families in their thirties and forties who own their houses and work in Bedford or Milton Keynes. Three in four households own their home. The typical resident is in their late thirties. More than a third have a degree. Students hardly figure.
About 75% of Wootton's households own their home. Only about 6% rent privately, and about 16% rent from a council or housing association. In a village made up mostly of detached houses and semis, councils and housing associations house nearly three times as many households as private landlords.
The median age is 37, and about 30% of residents are aged 25 to 44. That is young for a village. The age profile matches what most people come here for, which is a house with room for children within driving distance of a job somewhere else.
The Office for National Statistics models household income here at about £71,700 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. That is a comfortable gross figure for a family household, and it describes a year that ended some time ago.
Census 2021 is the source for every population figure in this answer. It found about 29% of households were couples with dependent children and about 10% were lone parents. Together those make children the main business of many Wootton streets.
About 21% of households are one person living alone, and about 11% are a single pensioner, which is part of that 21%. The pensioners living alone tend to be in the older houses near the church, while the newer roads are full of school runs, though the Census does not draw that map for you.
About 36% of residents have a degree and about 12% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students are about 2%. The young people who go off to study tend to come back in their thirties with children and a mortgage of their own.
About 87% of residents describe their health as good or very good. In the Bedford Borough Council area, adult smoking is about 12%, similar to England, and the preventable mortality rate is also similar to England. Those are borough-level comparisons, not measures of the village.
Wootton's population is in good shape: young families, mostly owners, well qualified and healthy. Residents arrive in their thirties with a deposit and stay while their children grow up.