Detached stone and pebbledash houses line the roads down towards the sea here, with caravans and holiday cottages tucked among the full-time homes — the kind of village where the population barely fills a large housing estate elsewhere, and where the average resident is closer to retirement than to raising young children. This is coastal Ceredigion rather than commuter Wales: the pace is set by tides and season, not timetables. There's no rail station in the village and the transport grade reflects that — this is a place you reach and leave by road, with a modest handful of bus stops rather than a station forecourt. Ysgol Gymunedol Aberporth, the community primary, is the only school in the village itself, so families here are generally settled rather than passing through, and the median age north of fifty tells the same story. On housing, the detached freehold home is the norm — of the recent sales sampled, detached properties outnumbered everything else, and every single one changed hands as a freehold. A For Sale board here usually means a proper house with land around it, not a flat or a leasehold flat-share, and at a median approaching £253,000 you're paying close to what you'd pay across Ceredigion as a whole, a touch above the county's own median. Green space is tight by the numbers — under a hectare spread across four sites — but that undersells a village that has the whole coastline as its back garden; the formal park count here is almost beside the point when the beach itself is the amenity. What stands out more sharply, and deserves a straight mention, is crime: the overall safety grade sits in respectable territory, and the health grade is the strongest in the whole profile, but the raw crime rate runs far above the Ceredigion average, driven overwhelmingly by violence and sexual offences, which account for roughly two in every three incidents logged. Set against a population of under 150, a relatively small number of incidents produces an outsized rate — worth understanding rather than panicking over, but it's the one figure in this picture that doesn't match the calm, well-regarded feel everywhere else. Connectivity is the other soft spot: full fibre reaches only about half of properties, which matters if you're planning to work from home full-time. This suits someone who wants a settled, older-skewing coastal community with sea on the doorstep and is buying rather than renting — the freehold detached market and the retirement-heavy age profile both point that way. It suits it less well if you need a fast broadband line for work, a train at the end of the road, or a wide choice of schools in the village itself. The affordability sits in the more comfortable half nationally in Wales, and health outcomes here are genuinely strong; the crime figures are the one line worth reading twice before you commit.