Detached houses on generous plots, gravel drives, hedges trimmed with intent — this is a village where nearly every sale on record is a freehold detached home, and the For Sale boards that do go up don't stay up long enough for anyone to get used to them. Ham is small in a way that changes how you read every other number about it. The population sits in single figures for the area measured, which means the crime count, the school average, the density figure are all telling you about a hamlet, not a town — treat the pattern, not the arithmetic. That pattern is unambiguous: an A for safety and an A for affordability, a B+ overall that puts it comfortably above the national average on Check Local's scale, sitting inside Wiltshire but pricier than the county's own median by a wide margin. The one figure that jars — burglary and violent crime shares that look high against a Wiltshire benchmark — is really the statistical fragility of tiny numbers rather than a lived reality; the trend is marked flat, and this isn't a place with a policing problem. There's no rail station or school in the local data, and no green space of any real size — the single recorded plot of open ground is barely a garden's-worth of hectares. That absence matters more than any grade: this reads as a place people drive to and from, not a walkable village centre with a station at one end and a primary school at the other. The connectivity grade (C+) and transport stop count (two) confirm it — you're looking at a spot that rewards people who already own a car and don't mind covering ground for a supermarket, a GP, or a train. What you're paying for is space and quiet. The median sale price of £575,000 sits close to the national 90th percentile, and against Wiltshire's own median it's running over 80% higher — this is a place for people who've already done well and want land and distance from neighbours, not a starter-home market. Median age around 50 and an income decile at the very top of the national scale both point the same way: established households, not young commuters chasing a fast line into a city. Council tax band D costs a little above both the national and Wiltshire norms, which tracks with detached houses on bigger plots. If you value having room, quiet, and a strong safety record, and you're not relying on a train platform or a school gate up the road, Ham fits. If your daily life depends on public transport, a short school run, or having a park at the end of the street, the absence of any of that in the picture here is the thing to weigh before the price tag.