Exbury is the kind of place you find by accident on the way to somewhere else — a scatter of houses around the Beaulieu river marshes, better known for its gardens than its street furniture, with the New Forest pressing in on every side. There's no high street to speak of, no cluster of shops pulling in passing trade. What you notice instead is space: hedgerows, water, and the sense that the land is doing more work here than the buildings are. There isn't enough hard data on Exbury itself to give you the usual picture of schools, commuting patterns, or crime figures for the village — it's small enough to fall below the radar that most local statistics get compiled from. What we do know is where it sits in the wider area: the New Forest district, its parent area, has a median house price of £385,000, itself above the national median of £281,000, and the South East region generally runs well ahead of the country on typical house values too. That tells you the broad financial neighbourhood Exbury sits within — one of the pricier corners of England — even without a village-level figure to confirm exactly where Exbury lands within it. Given that gap in the numbers, the honest answer is that this needs treating as a starting point rather than a full picture. Anyone seriously weighing up a move here would do well to look at actual listings and the immediate parish detail rather than regional averages, since a place this small can vary enormously from the district figures that surround it. What's clear is the character on offer — rural, waterside, low-density, part of a National Park landscape — and what's missing is the granularity to say much more with confidence.