Friars Green reads as dense, young and flat-dominated — this is a place of converted terraces and purpose-built blocks rather than family semis, and the streets have the compact, slightly transient feel that comes with a median age of 28.5 against a national figure closer to 40. You'll notice it in the mix of people coming and going: students, young professionals, renters between jobs. It doesn't feel suburban in the hedge-and-driveway sense, even though it's classed that way. The property picture backs this up plainly. Nine of the eleven recent sales here were flats, nearly all leasehold, and a typical flat changes hands for around £260,000 — well above the national flat median of £215,000, which tells you Friars Green commands a premium for its type even though the area overall sits below both the Exeter and national averages for houses generally, at roughly 12% cheaper than Exeter as a whole. A For Sale board here is almost always advertising a leasehold flat, not a house with a garden, and buyers should read the freehold count (just two of eleven) as the norm, not the exception. Renting is the more common tenure story in practice, with median rents around £1,317, noticeably higher than both the regional and national figures — density and demand from a young population pushing that up. On transport, stop counts are modest and the connectivity grade is solid without being exceptional, so this suits someone who can work locally or cycle rather than someone reliant on a long rail commute. Green space and the general infrastructure grades — connectivity, environment, transport all sitting comfortably at B+ — suggest a well-connected, well-serviced pocket, and the health grade of A is genuinely strong. Nightlife scores even higher, an A+, and that single grade tells you a lot about what a weekend actually looks like here: bars, food venues and a social scene built around a younger population rather than family day-trips. Schools, by contrast, sit at a more middling C+, and there isn't a strong Ofsted-rated primary or secondary in the local data to point to — worth checking directly if children are part of your plan. The one grade that cuts against the otherwise comfortable picture is safety, a C, with crime trending in the wrong direction and violence and sexual offences accounting for well over a third of recorded incidents, followed by anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That's the quiet spine of this place: an area that scores well on health, connectivity and nightlife, sits mid-table on affordability, but carries a safety grade that hasn't kept pace with the rest. Combined with an IMD decile of 3 — putting it among the more deprived areas nationally despite the lively surface — this is somewhere that rewards a clear-eyed look rather than a quick decision. It suits people who want density, nightlife and a young social pulse and who've weighed the safety trend consciously, rather than those prioritising quiet streets or top-tier schooling.