Funtington announces itself as a scatter of flint and brick houses along a lane rather than anything you'd call a centre — the kind of place where a For Sale board is a genuine event. With a population in the dozens rather than thousands and a median age pushing 55, this is a settlement of people who have mostly finished the business of commuting and school runs, not one that's filling up with either. The housing here tells its own story before you even look at a listing. Every recorded sale is freehold, the mix leans terraced and detached with a scattering of semis, and the median sale price of £740,000 sits well above both the Chichester district figure and the national picture — this is a village where a "starter home" isn't really a category. Chichester itself is the relevant yardstick rather than the national average, and Funtington runs notably pricier than its own district, which already isn't cheap. Rents follow the same logic, coming in above both regional and national medians. For schools, Funtington Primary serves the youngest children in the village itself, and Oakwood School sits alongside it as a larger independent option — between them they cover most of what a family living here would need without a daily drive to Chichester. Green space is a single named plot of well under a hectare, which sounds thin until you remember this is open countryside on the edge of the South Downs rather than a place that needs a park to breathe — the fields do that job. There's no cluster of restaurants or cafés to describe, and that absence is itself the answer: life here runs on a car to Chichester or a neighbouring village for a meal out, a pub, or a proper food shop, rather than anything within Funtington's own boundary. Full-fibre broadband reaches about two-thirds of properties, which matters more than it once did now that working from the village, rather than commuting out of it, seems to be the pattern for a fair few residents. The grade pattern is where Funtington gets interesting. Nightlife and transport both score at the top of the scale — a slightly odd pairing for somewhere this quiet, best read as reflecting how few problems either category throws up here rather than a buzzing high street or a rail hub. Safety, health and environment all sit comfortably above the national average too, and crime numbers are genuinely small in absolute terms, even if violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share, as they do almost everywhere crime is rare enough to count on your fingers. The trend is flat, which in a village this size simply means nothing much changes year to year. Affordability and connectivity are the one soft spot, graded only around the national average, and that's the honest trade-off: you're paying a premium for quiet and views, not for shops on the doorstep. This suits someone who has already decided they want space, low turnover of neighbours, and a slower clock — not someone who wants to walk to dinner.