Detached houses behind low brick walls, a scatter of older bungalows, and a village school gate where the same faces gather each morning — Eastry has the settled look of a place people move to rather than through. The median age here sits over a decade above the national figure, and once you've spent an afternoon on its streets that tracks: this is a village of established households, not shared houses or starter flats. There's no rail station in the picture, which tells you something on its own — this is a driving village, not a commuter-belt one, and the transport grade (among the strongest scores in this profile) rests on road links and local stops rather than trains into London. Eastry Church of England Primary, rated Good, anchors the school-age families who are here, though with only two schools counted locally, secondary-age children will be travelling out. Housing leans heavily detached and freehold — the sample skews toward larger family homes, and detached prices here run well above the national detached average, though still under the regional one. A For Sale board on an Eastry street is more likely to be pitched at someone trading up from a flat elsewhere than someone buying their first home. On the money, Eastry sits in the middle of the national distribution for affordability — a touch pricier than Dover district as a whole — while the income and deprivation deciles suggest a village that's comfortable without being wealthy; this isn't Sevenoaks or Tunbridge Wells money. Green space is genuinely part of daily life, with ten separate patches of it woven through a small population, more per head than the national average even if just short of the regional norm — the kind of place where a walk after work is the default, not an event. What stands out against that gentle backdrop is crime: violent and sexual offences make up a striking share of local incidents, and that single figure is the one grade (safety sits mid-pack while environment and health both score strongly) that doesn't match the rest of the picture. It's worth reading as a small-numbers effect in a village of under 500 people rather than a pattern, but it's there, and it's the one line worth asking a local about before you commit. This suits someone who wants a settled, green, family-sized home and is happy to drive rather than commute by rail — an older buyer, or a family trading up, more than a young professional chasing a fast line into town. The trade-off is real: strong schooling and space, set against a safety picture that's more mixed than the surrounding grades would suggest.