Terraced streets dominate here, row after row of Freehold brick, and the sales record backs it up completely — every recorded sale in the village over the period was a terrace, nothing else changing hands. This is old County Durham colliery country in its housing bones: solid, unpretentious, built for mining families generations back and still doing the same job now. The numbers on getting around and paying your way tell an unusually generous story for the price. Craghead sits in the second-lowest decile nationally for deprivation and the very bottom decile for income, yet the affordability grade comes out top-tier and transport scores similarly well for a village of this size, with ten local stops keeping you connected without a car being non-negotiable. Housing itself is where the story gets stark: a median terrace price around £73,500 is roughly 41% below the County Durham average, and less than a third of the national terrace median — this is a place where a modest wage still buys a front door outright. Council tax on a Band D property runs close to the national norm, so the low entry price isn't offset by a hidden sting there. On schooling, the data doesn't give a standout named institution to point to, but the average Ofsted profile across the area's schools sits close to both the regional and national norm, which is a fair, unremarkable baseline rather than a red flag. Green space is where the village earns its "A" for environment — seven separate pockets of it across a small population, more provision per head than the regional average suggests you'd expect in a place this size, and worth factoring in if garden space is tight on a terraced street. Full-fibre broadband reaches four in five properties, which matters more than it used to now that home working is routine. The one figure that sits oddly against all this calm is safety: crime sits at a "B" grade and has been flat rather than improving, and the rate itself runs well above the County Durham average, with violent and sexual offences making up close to half of all recorded incidents, followed by criminal damage and anti-social behaviour some way behind. It's not a chaotic picture — the absolute numbers are modest for a full year — but it's the one grade in an otherwise strong set that doesn't match the neighbourhood's outward calm, and it's worth sitting with rather than skating past. Put together, this reads as a village for people who want a cheap, solid roof over their heads and don't need much beyond that — established residents, older buyers, anyone priced out of pricier Durham villages who's willing to look past a safety grade that lags the rest of the picture. The median age here tracks close to the national figure, so it isn't a retirement enclave, more a place people settle into rather than pass through. If low cost and green space matter more to you than a spotless crime sheet, it earns a genuine look; if safety is your first filter, weigh that "B" carefully against everything else it gets right.