Combe Martin sits along that stretch of the North Devon coast where the high street is more caravan-and-surfboard than boutique, and where the average person you pass has a fair few more years on them than you'd find in most English towns — the median age here is 52, a decade or so above the national norm. It reads as a settled, unhurried place rather than one in transition: the sort of village where people arrive and stay, rather than pass through on the way up a career ladder. Getting around is where Combe Martin quietly surprises: transport scores strongly here, with 28 stops serving a village of only 1,340 people, even though there's no rail station in the mix — this is a bus-and-car existence, not a commuter-belt one. Schooling is a one-school affair in the village itself, Combe Martin Primary School, an academy converter without a published Ofsted rating in this data; if you want a graded option, Berrynarbor Church of England Primary sits Good, a reasonable marker for the wider area's B-grade schooling. Housing leans heavily towards detached and semi-detached homes on freehold titles — 12 of the 29 recent sales were detached, almost all freehold — which is the classic signature of a village where people buy to settle rather than flip. Prices, at a median of £255,000, actually sit below both the national and North Devon norms on paper, yet North Devon as a whole is pricier by nearly 20% on the broader district figure, suggesting Combe Martin itself is one of the more affordable corners of a not-cheap area. Green space is modest rather than abundant — ten pockets covering just 5.5 hectares, less generous per head than the regional average — so this isn't a village built around sprawling parkland; it's coastline and countryside beyond the village edge that does the heavy lifting for weekend walking. What stands out more is the grade pattern: safety and nightlife both score at the very top end, environment and health comfortably above average, and the one真正 outlier is connectivity, marked down against a backdrop of otherwise strong marks — full fibre reaches only 65% of properties, a gap worth checking against your own street if working from home matters to you. Crime overall is low in volume, 64 incidents across the year, though violence and sexual offences make up a disproportionate 43% of it, which is worth reading as a single-category spike rather than a broad crime problem. This adds up to a village for people who've already done the busy years — retirees, downsizers, remote workers who don't need gigabit fibre — drawn by a coastal setting, a strong sense of safety, and homes that are still within reach of the national median. It will regret-check badly for anyone needing a rail commute or fast broadband as a baseline, and less badly for anyone happy to make peace with an ageing, quiet, car-dependent rhythm.