Bigbury-on-Sea announces itself through car parks and dunes rather than a conventional high street — this is a scatter of detached houses and holiday lets above the beach, the kind of place where the estate agent's board reads "Freehold, Detached" nine times out of twenty and hardly anyone is renting long-term. The population here is tiny and skews older, and you feel that in the pace of the place: this isn't a village built around a school run or a station platform, it's built around the tide table and the view. There's no rail station in the picture and no commuting story to tell, so the practical question is really about housing and who else lives here. The one sampled school, Aveton Gifford CofE Primary, sits in the wider catchment rather than on the doorstep, and with a median age in the mid-fifties, this reads as a place people move to rather than one they raise young children in. Property is where the numbers do the talking without needing to be recited: a median sale price around £476,500 against a South Hams figure roughly 36% lower, and detached houses locally fetching above £515,000 against a national detached median nearer £420,000. This is a village priced for second-home buyers and downsizers with equity, not first rungs on a ladder. Crime is genuinely low in absolute terms, and the safety grade — an A, the standout in an otherwise solid-but-unremarkable set of B and B+ marks — is the quiet spine of this place: theft and the odd incident of criminal damage make up most of what little there is, and none of it reads as a pattern to worry about. Connectivity is the one grade that dips, a C, which tracks with the isolation that also gives Bigbury its appeal — the beach, the dunes, the sea itself are the real amenities here, and you come for them rather than for restaurants or nightlife density. Health provision and general liveability score comfortably above the national run of things, but this is a place you drive to and from for most day-to-day needs rather than one where everything is on the corner. This suits people buying a second home, retiring somewhere quiet with capital behind them, or wanting a coastal base without the crowding of a bigger seaside town — not those needing schools, station, or shops within easy reach.