Alderney's streets are dominated by semi-detached and detached houses on quiet residential roads, the kind of place where you notice hedges more than shopfronts. It sits within Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and the housing stock here — mostly freehold, family-sized, ordinary rather than showy — tells you this is a settled suburb rather than a transient one. The median age of 37.6 is younger than the national average, which matches the sense of a place with working households rather than retirees, though it's not a hotspot of any particular scene. The numbers behind the streetscape back up the impression of comfortable stability rather than prestige. A median house price of £310,000 is actually a touch below both the national and regional norms, and about 7% cheaper than the wider Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area — so you're not paying a premium to be here, even though the housing grade itself comes back close to top marks. Semi-detached homes sell for meaningfully more locally than the national semi-detached average, while terraces track close to the national figure, which suggests the semi-detached stock is the more sought-after end of the market. Schooling includes Bearwood Primary and Nursery School, rated Good, alongside Canford School, a larger independent — a mix that points to families with options rather than a single dominant path. The area's connectivity grade is solid, though this isn't a place defined by a rail commute in the data available. Green space and day-to-day amenity aren't detailed here in named form, but the numbers hint at a liveable, unspectacular rhythm — decent broadband, with full-fibre reaching the large majority of homes, and a population density well below the national average, so this doesn't feel packed in. Health outcomes sit as the one grade that dips below the pattern set by everything else — a C+ against a run of Bs and A-grade housing — worth noting if local healthcare access matters to you, even without a specific reason spelled out in the data. Crime is the other detail to sit with honestly: violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour make up the bulk of incidents, and the area's overall crime rate runs sharply higher than the parent authority's average, even as the safety grade itself holds at B+. That gap between the raw crime-rate comparison and the graded outcome is worth registering rather than glossing over — it may reflect how the rate is calculated relative to a small population rather than a lived sense of danger, but it's the kind of contradiction you'd want to ask a local about before committing. Taken together, this reads as a settled, moderately-priced suburban corner — not cheap by national standards, not expensive by local ones, with decent schools and solid digital infrastructure. It suits people who want ordinary family housing without inner-city intensity, so long as the health and crime figures don't quietly bother you enough to dig further before deciding.