Yorkletts belongs to people who have finished moving house. Nearly everyone owns their home. The typical resident is close to fifty. Students are close to extinct. It's a village for the back end of a mortgage, or for life after one.
All the population figures here come from Census 2021, which counted 842 people in 327 households. About 85% of households own their home. Around 13% rent privately and 2% rent from a council or housing association. Renting in Yorkletts is less a housing sector than a waiting room for people saving up to buy.
The median age is 49. People aged 25 to 44 make up about 20% of residents, so the years of nursery fees and job-hopping are thinly represented. This is where people land once they've done all that, and they seem to have landed well.
Household income comes from Office for National Statistics modelling rather than the census, and it describes the financial year to March 2023, not today. Gross household income before tax came to about £57,700. That's a comfortable figure, earned by households who mostly aren't funding a landlord's pension any more.
The household mix is quieter than a family-estate brochure would suggest. Couples with dependent children make up about 21% of households, and lone parents about 4%. For a village of four-bedroom houses, there are a lot of spare rooms being kept for grandchildren's visits.
About 21% of households are one person living alone, and 12% are a single pensioner living alone, which is part of that 21% rather than extra to it. That leaves a sizeable share of big houses holding one resident and their memories of when it was full. Downsizing is a conversation that happens here often and is acted on rarely.
About 31% of residents hold a degree-level qualification, and about 17% have no qualifications at all. Full-time students make up about 2%, so late-night parties with three people to a bedroom are not a local feature. The mix is what you'd expect of a settled village on the edge of a university city that has kept its distance from the university.
The communal population is three people, which is too small to change how any of these shares read.
Who lives here is middling in the most comfortable way: settled homeowners in their later working years, more contented than remarkable. Anyone looking for a young crowd will find it in Whitstable or Canterbury.