Bourton is the kind of place where the detached house with the gravel drive isn't an aspiration, it's simply what's on offer — of the recent sales here, the large majority were detached, all freehold, and the terraces and semis are the exception rather than the rule. It reads as settled rather than transient: a median age in the mid-fifties, a population you could fit into a couple of large streets, and a density so low it barely registers next to the regional average. This isn't a place people pass through on the way to somewhere else. The practical picture is simple because there isn't much of it. There's one school in the village, St George's Church of England School, a small primary academy with just over a hundred pupils — so your children's schooling here means that school, not a shortlist. Eleven transport stops serve the village but no rail station appears on the local network, which tells you this is a driving life, not a commuting one; if you work away from Bourton, you're doing it by car. Housing follows the same logic as the schooling: a median sale price of £442,500, comfortably above both the Dorset and national medians, with detached homes here even pricier than the detached norm elsewhere in the region. A "For Sale" board on this street is not selling entry-level anything. Green space is modest in scale but present — three plots totalling under seven hectares, enough for a walk but not an estate's worth of parkland. There's no restaurant or pub named in what's on record here, and none of the retail texture that fills a Saturday in a market town; day-to-day life leans on what you bring with you or drive to. Healthcare and connectivity sit in solid but unremarkable territory, full-fibre broadband reaching around seven in ten homes, which is respectable rather than exceptional. The one figure that jars against the overall calm is crime relative to Dorset: the rate here runs sharply above the county benchmark, though the raw count — nine incidents logged in the past year, violence and anti-social behaviour the largest slices — is small enough that a handful of incidents move the percentage a long way. The trend is flat, not worsening, which matters more than the headline multiple. Put together, this is an affluent, ageing, low-density village built around private transport and a single small school, where the safety grade is excellent in practice even if the county comparison looks stark on paper, and where the trade-off is space and quiet against the absence of a station, a high street, or much to walk to.