Fleet's high street still has the look of a place built around a railway rather than a ring road — red brick, independent shopfronts mixed in with the usual chains, and a steady flow of people who look like they're either heading to the station or collecting kids from school. It's a town that reads as settled rather than transient: the median age sits well above the national figure, and you notice it in the pace of the place as much as in the pushchairs and dog leads. The practical picture here is coherent rather than piecemeal. Fleet Rail Station gives commuters a direct route into London, and that single line does a lot of heavy lifting for who chooses to live here — the sort of person who wants a house with a drive rather than a flat with a view. Schools follow the same pattern: Fleet Infant School carries a Good rating, and the wider set of primaries and secondaries (Court Moor School and Calthorpe Park School among them) post progress scores at or above the expected national baseline, which for a state-comprehensive intake is a reasonable sign of consistency rather than dazzle. Housing leans heavily detached and freehold — of the sales sampled, detached homes outnumber flats by some margin, and freehold ownership dominates over leasehold, which is the classic signature of a family town rather than a rental market. A median house price of £465,000 sits above both the regional and national medians, and about 30% above the England-wide average, though it's only a touch above the wider Hart district it sits within — so you're paying for the district as much as the town. Green space is genuinely plentiful for the population size, and with dozens of parks and open spaces spread across the town, the weekend shape tends to be outdoorsy rather than shopping-centre-bound — dog walks, football on a Saturday pitch, that sort of rhythm. Full-fibre broadband reaches a solid majority of homes, useful if your household is split between office days and working from the kitchen table. The one figure that jars against the otherwise comfortable picture is crime: nearly half of recorded incidents fall under violence and sexual offences, a heavier concentration than you'd expect given how affluent and low-deprivation the town otherwise scores — Fleet sits in the top decile nationally for both income and general deprivation measures. The overall safety grade is still strong, and the trend is recorded as improving, so this looks like a category worth noting rather than a reason to write the town off. Fleet suits people who've made peace with a longer commute in exchange for space, quiet schools, and a garden that doesn't back onto a main road. It's less suited to anyone chasing nightlife or a fast-changing, youthful social scene — the grades make that trade-off explicit, strong almost everywhere except after dark. If your version of a good evening is a decent pub and an early night, rather than a night out that runs late, the fit will feel obvious fairly quickly.