Hatt is barely more than a cluster of houses and a lane junction near Saltash, the kind of place you'd miss if you blinked driving through — no high street to speak of, no visible centre, just the Cornish countryside doing what it does between the Tamar and the coast. That absence of a centre is itself the character: this is a village for people who have already decided they don't want a village centre. There's not much here in the way of hard numbers to test that impression against, which is telling in itself — Hatt is small enough that it doesn't generate its own statistical footprint the way a town does. What we can say is where it sits in the wider county. Cornwall's typical house price runs close to £285,000 and its crime rate around 73.6 per 1,000 people, and a hamlet like Hatt, tucked away from the main Saltash-to-Callington traffic, will generally track quieter and pricier than that unitary-wide average rather than busier and cheaper — places this size rarely buck that pattern. Nationally, the picture in the South West skews older and more settled than England as a whole, with median ages running into the mid-forties rather than the late thirties you'd find in a city postcode, and that generally holds for the small villages ringing Plymouth's commuter belt too. What you're actually buying into with somewhere like Hatt is proximity without immersion: near enough to Saltash and the Tamar Bridge crossing into Plymouth for work, shopping, and schools, but living somewhere that doesn't ask anything of you socially unless you go looking for it. That suits people who've already got their community sorted elsewhere — a job across the bridge, a church or a pub in the next village, grown children who visit rather than need picking up from school. It suits people who want a garden, a view, and quiet more than they want a Saturday morning coffee queue. Whether you'd regret it comes down to how self-sufficient you are. If you need daily bustle, corner shops, or the reassurance of neighbours on the same street, a hamlet this size will feel isolating within a season. If what you actually want is silence, space, and the option to drive somewhere lively rather than live in the middle of it, Hatt is doing exactly what it says on the tin — and doing it, by the look of the surrounding market, at a price that still sits close to the regional norm rather than at the sharp end of Cornwall's coastal premium.