Detached houses behind hedging, gravel drives, cars that skew new — Headley Down reads as settled and comfortable rather than showy. The population sits close to 1,900, spread thin across the ground compared with most of the South East, and the median age of 55.6 tells you plainly who's behind those hedges: this is a place people move to once the mortgage pressure is off, not one they pass through in their twenties. The numbers back that up. A median house price of £680,000 sits well above both the regional and national medians, and it's a quarter higher than the East Hampshire average itself — this is one of the pricier corners of an already expensive district. Nearly all recorded sales are freehold detached houses, which is exactly what you'd expect to see on the For Sale boards here: family-sized, owned outright or nearly so, not a rental market of any real size. Schooling is thin rather than absent — The Holme Church of England Primary School is the one sampled school in the area, an academy serving getting on for 200 pupils — so anyone with older children will likely be looking beyond the village boundary. With income and deprivation deciles both at the top of the national scale, this is not a place chosen on a budget. Green space is modest in scale — eight patches totalling under eight hectares — but it's used, not ornamental, in a village built around dog walks and garden borders rather than destination parks. Restaurants and evening options are limited, and the C+ nightlife grading is the honest read: you come here to leave the evening behind, not to find it. Crime overall is low and the trend is flat, which matters more than the raw total — violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share, as they do in most crime breakdowns nationally, but the volume behind that percentage is small for a place this size, and safety is graded amongst the strongest in the country. That's the quiet spine of this profile: an otherwise unremarkable, gently-graded village that comes out unusually safe. This suits people who've already done the commuting years and the school-run years, or who work from home and don't need either. It's a poor fit if you want nightlife, rental flexibility, or a big secondary school on your doorstep — and at this price point, you're paying for quiet and space, not convenience.