Settled homeowners, mostly on the older side of forty. Seven in ten own their home. The typical resident is nearer fifty than forty. Students barely register. Yalding is where people land after they've finished moving house, and the figures show it.
All the population figures here come from the 2021 Census. Of the village's 2,078 residents, about 73% of households own their home, about 12% rent privately and about 13% rent from a social landlord. With more social renters than private tenants, the buy-to-let crowd has mostly left Yalding alone.
The median resident is 49, and only about 20% of residents are aged 25 to 44. The people buying their first flat and starting families are thin on the ground, largely because the flats and starter homes they'd buy are too.
Modelled household income for the area was about £59,000 a year before tax in the financial year to March 2023. That is gross, before deductions, and it describes three years ago rather than today. It points to a comfortable village, not a wealthy enclave, and most people here can afford the heating.
About 21% of households are couples with dependent children, and about 8% are lone parents. Families are here, but they don't set the tone. The school run is one of several routines, not the one the village organises itself around.
About 27% of households are one person living alone, and about 14% are a single pensioner living alone. The pensioner households are part of that 27%, not in addition to it, so roughly half the people living alone are pensioners. That's a lot of quiet houses, and a village where a neighbour noticing the milk hasn't been taken in still counts for something.
About 30% of residents hold a degree-level qualification, while about 20% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students make up about 1%. Taken together, it's a mixed village, with no graduate enclave and no student quarter.
Only one resident lives in a communal setting such as a care home, so the household figures above cover almost the whole population.
Yalding sits in the middle on most measures: settled, comfortable and more middle-aged than young. Most people who move here come to stay.