Great Amwell reads as it looks: low brick and timber cottages along a lane, a lock and the New River running through, and cars that tend to be newer than the houses. It's the kind of village where the postman knows the names, and where the population barely fills a couple of streets' worth of a London postcode. This is not a place you pass through by accident. The numbers behind that impression are unambiguous. An income and deprivation decile of 9 puts Great Amwell among the more comfortable villages nationally, and the property market confirms it — detached houses dominate the sales here, freehold is the norm, and a median sale price of £660,000 sits well above both the regional and national medians (it's roughly half as much again as the wider East Hertfordshire district). A For Sale board on this street is almost always selling a whole freehold house, not a share of one. Median age nudges 47, seven years above the national figure, which tells you this is a settled village rather than a starter-home suburb: people arrive and stay. Commuting is anchored by St Margaret's, the village's own station, which puts London within reach without the crush of a bigger town's rail head. Schooling is thin in number — St John the Baptist CE Primary is the one school actually in the village — but Great Amwell's overall schools grade sits at the top of the scale, so families here aren't gambling on it. Safety follows the same pattern: an A for safety, and a crime count of 33 incidents across the year, low enough that violence and anti-social behaviour categories, while still the largest slices of that small pie, amount to a handful of cases rather than a pattern to worry about. The one grade that doesn't match this otherwise glowing constellation is health, sitting at a more middling C+, worth noting if ongoing local healthcare access matters to you. Weekends here are shaped by the water and the walk rather than a high street of shops — the New River and the lock are the local draw, and green space is scarce in raw hectares even if what's there (Great Amwell's riverside stretch) is well used. There's no long list of restaurants or venues in the data to point to, which fits: this is a village for a quiet pint and a walk, not a night out. Broadband is solid, with two-thirds of premises on full fibre, so working from home here isn't a compromise. Altogether, Great Amwell suits people who've already decided they want village life with a train line attached — older buyers, established households, people trading city convenience for quiet and space, who've made peace with a limited school choice and a health service that isn't the area's strongest suit.