Detached houses behind hedges, a scattering of flats, and a population you could fit into a couple of large schools — Burpham has the feel of a place people move to once, then stay. The median age here sits close to sixty, nearly two decades above the national figure, and that tells you most of what you need to know before you've read a single grade: this is not a village geared around young families or nightlife, it's one geared around settling in. The practical picture is a little uneven. Arundel Rail Station serves the area, so a commute into the wider South East network is realistic, and the overall transport grade sits comfortably above average. Schools are a thinner story in the data — St Philip's Catholic Primary School is the named option, an academy converter, though no Ofsted rating is attached to it here, so treat it as a name to research further rather than a settled verdict. Housing skews toward detached and flatted freehold stock, with a median sale price of £427,500 against a national figure of £281,000 — this is a village priced well above the country as a whole, and about 30% above the wider Arun district it sits within, which puts it among the pricier corners of a district that isn't cheap to begin with. Green space is modest rather than generous — three plots totalling under two hectares, thin by both national and regional standards — so this isn't a village built around sprawling parkland; it's one where the outdoor life happens in gardens and along the Arun rather than in a big civic park. That fits the age profile: a quieter, more settled rhythm than a family-dense commuter village would have. Health outcomes and environment both grade in the C+ range, a shade below the B's that dominate elsewhere in the profile — worth noting as the one soft patch in an otherwise solid picture, particularly if healthcare access matters to you day to day. Safety is the detail to sit with. The overall safety grade is a strong B+, and violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting make up the bulk of a fairly small crime count for a village this size — but the trend is marked as worsening. That's not a reason to write the place off; a low base count means a handful of incidents can shift the percentages sharply. It's simply the one thread worth pulling before you commit, in a village that otherwise reads as affluent, well-connected by rail, and built for people past the school-run years rather than in the thick of them.