Detached houses behind trimmed hedges, cars a little newer than the national average, and a quiet that isn't the manufactured kind — Anchor reads as a settled, mid-life suburb rather than a place anyone is passing through. The median age nudges fifty, a decade above the national figure, and it shows in the pace: this isn't a street of house-shares and pop-up coffee, it's a street where people have been for a while and intend to stay. That settledness runs right through the housing picture. Detached homes dominate the sales here, freehold is the norm rather than the exception, and at a median of £325,000 you're actually buying slightly cheaper than the Fareham average, despite sitting well above the England-wide figure — a place that reads as comfortable rather than showy, among the less deprived pockets of the country by most measures. Schools follow the same steady, unspectacular logic: Crofton Anne Dale Infant School carries a Good rating, and Crofton School handles secondary-age children as an all-through academy, though its progress score sits a touch below the expected line — worth a conversation with the school directly rather than a red flag in itself. There's no rail station showing up on the local map, so this is a driving suburb more than a commuter-belt one; plan around that rather than against it. Green space per head runs a little below both the regional and national norm, so this isn't an area defined by sprawling parkland, but the crime pattern is the more telling texture here. Overall safety grades as strongly above the national picture, yet violence and sexual offences make up nearly half of the (small) annual crime count — the kind of single-category spike that's worth sitting with rather than dismissing, even against a genuinely low total of 25 incidents across the year. Anti-social behaviour and shoplifting trail well behind. Broadband is solid, with full fibre reaching most premises, which matters more than it used to now that working from one of those detached houses is a realistic option rather than a compromise. Anchor suits people who've already done their loud years elsewhere — established households, older buyers, anyone trading a commute for space and quiet. It asks you to drive rather than walk to a station, to make peace with a crime mix that's more concentrated than it is frequent, and to value a settled freehold street over a buzzing one. If that's the trade you're after, it's a comfortable one to make.