Yapton is settled, owner-occupier, and just past forty. About 6,900 people live here across roughly 2,700 households. Three-quarters of them own their homes. The median age is 45. The typical household earns about £54,700 a year. Read that as a settled Sussex village, not a commuter dormitory.
Ownership is the dominant tenure by a large margin. About three-quarters of Yapton households own the home they live in, either outright or with a mortgage. Renting takes about a quarter of households in total. The split within that renting quarter is roughly even between private landlords, at about one in ten households, and social landlords, at about one in eight, which is a heavier social-housing share than most West Sussex villages carry. Together the ownership and social-rental mix tells the settled-community story: people who bought here stay here, and people who moved in through social provision are locked in by the same allocation rules that placed them here.
The median age is 45, which sits above the national midpoint of 40 and reflects a village with both a solid resident-family core and a meaningful retiree share. About a quarter of residents fall in the 25 to 44 working-age band, which is the group that fills the mortgages, drives the school runs, and works from home in the numbers the connectivity data records. Older residents make up a larger share than in a city or a market town, which shows in the health, income and household-composition numbers throughout this section. Younger adults are present but not dominant, which is what a village without a rail station or a university tends to produce.
The typical household earns about £54,700 a year. That is a middle-of-the-range number for rural West Sussex, comfortable enough to reach the local property market for a couple on average local salaries with a decent deposit, and short of the London-money bracket that pushes village prices into stretched territory. It is settled-professional money rather than career-peak money, which fits the village's median-age profile. Roughly a quarter of adults hold a degree or higher qualification, and about one in six holds no formal qualifications, which is the shape of a broad qualification range rather than a graduate enclave.
Household composition is spread across the usual mix. About a quarter of households contain a single adult, and roughly half of those are pensioners living alone. Around one in five households is a couple with children. About one in ten households is a lone parent with children. The remainder covers couples without children, multi-adult non-family households, and shared arrangements. What the split tells a buyer is that Yapton is a working village with children in it, not a retirement enclave and not a young-professional enclave. About four in five residents report good or very good health. Roughly one in twenty reports bad or very bad. Unemployment sits under 3%.
The verdict is three out of five, which is a fair reading of a village that runs comfortably around the local average on every dimension. Settled owners past forty, comfortable incomes, decent health, ordinary work. Nothing unusual, and that is exactly the offer.