Detached houses behind hedges, gravel drives, and barely a soul on the pavement — that's the visual shorthand for Everton. This is a village of 304 people where the streets feel more like private lanes than through-roads, and the housing stock backs that up: freehold detached homes dominate the sales here, with nothing built new in recent memory. It reads as settled rather than transient, the kind of place people move into rather than through. The numbers on age confirm the impression — a median of 61 against a national figure closer to 40 tells you this isn't a village geared around school runs or first-time buyer starter homes, even though a primary academy, Milford-on-Sea Church of England Primary, sits within reach for the families who are here. Nine bus stops give some local mobility, but there's no rail station in the picture, so this is a driving village rather than a commuting one. On price, Everton sits comfortably above its own district: a median sale price of £459,000 runs nearly a fifth higher than the wider New Forest figure, and detached homes here fetch £577,500 against a national median of £420,000 — this is a place that trades at a premium even by local standards, sitting in the upper fifth of house prices nationally. Green space is modest in scale — just two plots totalling two hectares — so this isn't a village built around sprawling parkland, more one where gardens do the work that public space might elsewhere. The crime picture is where Everton earns its quiet confidence: seven incidents in the past year, in a village graded amongst the safest anywhere against the national average, with the safety trend holding flat rather than drifting either way. Violence and sexual offences top the local breakdown by share, but against such a small total that's a statistical wrinkle rather than a pattern to worry about. Broadband is solid too, with fibre reaching most of the village, which matters more here than a corner shop might, given how little passing trade there seems to be. What you're left with is a village for people who've already done the busy years — downsizers with equity, retirees who want space and quiet without total isolation, or established professionals who work from home and don't need a station platform. It won't suit anyone chasing nightlife, schools at every ability level, or a fast build-up of equity through new stock, because none of that is really on offer. But if what you want is safety that isn't just marketed as such, and space that costs what space costs in this corner of the South East, Everton delivers exactly what it looks like from the outside.