Detached houses on generous plots, gravel drives, hedges kept neat rather than showy — Diggs reads as the kind of suburb where nobody's in a hurry and nobody needs to be. It's a small place, under a thousand people, and it feels it: quiet roads, low density against both the regional and national averages, the sort of spot you'd drive through and not clock unless you lived there. The practical picture is straightforward rather than flashy. Haddenham & Thame Parkway Rail Station gives you a proper line out without needing to live in a town centre, and with a median age around 43 this is a place of settled households rather than young sharers or students. Haddenham St Mary's Church of England School, rated Good, sits within reach for families with primary-age children — solid rather than exceptional, and the area's overall schools grade (B+) backs that up: reliably good, not a place chasing Outstanding badges. Housing here is dominated by detached and semi-detached freehold homes, and that ownership pattern shows in the price: a median sale around £477,500, comfortably above the national £281,000 and a touch above even Buckinghamshire's own £450,000 benchmark. A For Sale board here is usually announcing a family home someone intends to stay in, not a flip. Green space per head runs a little below the regional norm, though with this few people and this much garden space per house, communal parkland matters less than it might elsewhere — the outdoor life here happens on private plots as much as public ones. What stands out more, reading the grades as a set, is safety: an A, against a B+ overall and a C+ on health and nightlife. That's an unusual peak in an otherwise comfortably-above-average profile, and it's worth sitting with, because the crime figure underneath is tiny in absolute terms — around thirty incidents a year, weighted heavily toward the violence and sexual offences category that dominates most area-level crime data everywhere, not a sign of local disorder. The IMD decile of 10 confirms it: this is among the least deprived areas in England, full stop, and the flat safety trend means that isn't shifting either way. What that C+ on health and nightlife tells you is that this isn't a place for late suppers or walk-in clinics on the corner — you'll be driving for both. It suits people who've already decided that quiet, space, and a decent commute matter more than having everything on the doorstep, and who don't mind that Diggs asks you to go elsewhere for the parts of life it doesn't supply itself.