What was the demographic of your childhood street?

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Families with young children

It was a bit half and half, one half was families with young children and the other half was the elderly

New build estate in the early 70s. Almost all families with children, only one non-white child in the street but she was adopted by a white couple. Most of the mums didn't work. A lot of the dads worked at the nearby university.

Families with young children, married couples without children, pensioners, few generations of one family in a house.

Terraced houses with back street. All owner occupiers then. Mix of ages, young parents and children/mature couples with grown up children/pensioners. Real good mix and nice place to live.

Unlikely anyone on benefits other than child allowance or OAP pension.

Now the street seems to be mostly people renting, their rent being paid for by benefits. Houses look uncared for and all pride gone.

Mostly families with children some younger some teenagers and we had three bungalows with either older couples or single older ladies. One three bedroom house had an older couple with no kids I only vaguely remember them, I think when they got it they still had teens at home. After a few years they did a swap with a family with two younger boys. The there was another with an older woman and her young adult daughter in a three bed house, the daughter moved out and the woman stayed in that house for decades until she died. This was a local council housing in a new town.

In my current street when we moved her there were many three bed houses with one elderly person in the home who had lived their for decades. In the past few years many have died or moved into care. It seems to be mostly younger couples with no kids moving in. This is ex council housing now for the most part.

In the street where I grew up there are single older people in three bedroom houses and 1 bedroom bungalows with young families even with 2 young kids in so all topsy turvy. My parents still live there and my disabled sibling still lives with them.

Old people.

I was the only child anywhere near but I lived with my grandparents and the vast majority of neighbours were older then them

3 or 4 families amid a sea of older people . 1960s build - many bungalows.

My grannies and aunties, mostly. Or that's certainly how it felt at the time.

My childhood street was a shithole and I’ve spent my life working to ensure I never have to live like that. I’m the only family member who ever moved away, my family are all in my home town perpetuating the cycle.

Back to back (think early Coronation Street) terraced. Cobbled street, back yards no gardens.
Mainly families with two or more young kids, poor white, working class, mostly English, some Irish.

Some families with adult children, some with younger children, an older couple. One gay couple (men). A mother and son. Predominantly white, but one Pakistani heritage family. Mix of detached and semis. Looking back, it was pretty idyllic - everyone got along (it was a cul de sac).

Largely middle class, a mixture of elderly and families, very peaceful and friendly.
I was lucky.

Small estate of new-build bungalows in the posh end of town which meant a lot of monied retired people. My parents moved in as a newly married couple and a few years later had myself and my sibling. There were a few younger families, and two larger families (one was Catholic) which fascinated me with the whole chaotic, loud atmosphere. My mother stood out later when my parents divorced. Think she was the only divorcee in the area. We definitely became the poor family of the neighbourhood, although there was another young family who were hard up because the dad lost his job.

Late Victorian street in the Black Country. A total mix from very old ladies who had moved in when it was newly built as young brides to Sikh families who had fled Idi Amin in Uganda. One branch of the city's gangster clan at the top end, they kept to themselves pretty much but no issues.

It was a great place to grow up, everyone was respectful of each other and just got on and there was always someone to play out with.

ETA one of the Victorian ladies a few doors down was nursed by her neighbours until she died at home (care provision was very different then)

Mostly families with married parents. Mums stayed at home till youngest child went to school then they went to work full time. It was an estate for miners so most dad's worked in the pits. Had a mixture of nationalities which all got on. When miners retired they stayed on the estate till they died or if they needed residential care. Rarely heard of anyone on benefits apart from those who'd been in accidents or had a bad illness. Everyone rented as houses were linked to job in the pits.

Small rural council estate. Young working class families, a few bungalows with elderly people in. One house with a family that fostered. I loved it, there was a real community feel with allotments and a park near by.

Families with children

Terraced street. Mix of renters and owners. Families and older people. Very mixed,quite a few asian families. Very WC area.

Was a great place to grow up, always a neighbours kid to play out with.

New build 1960s, young families, most worked in the same two local places, very few English people (my parents were immigrants, so was 90% of the local population.)

Half and half. Pensioners and families. All houses and no flats. The pensioners were generally irritated by us children and our parents kept the peace.

Families with young children, young couples, single lady next door (young teacher), and elderly people. Quite a mixture. Victorian terraced houses in a Midlands market town, 1980s.

White, middle class, homeowners

Terraced houses with gardens , mix of younger families, empty nesters and pensioners. Working /lower middle class, owner occupiers. Not ethnically divers. The same street now probably 80%owned, 20%rented. More starter homes, rather than families with 2 or 3 kids

Families with children my age, very white and middle class.