Headley reads as detached and semi-detached houses behind hedges, gravel drives, cars that are newer than the lanes deserve. It's a village in the fullest sense: no crowd, no strip of shops competing for attention, just a scatter of houses at a density you'd struggle to find within an hour of central London. The people you see are older rather than younger — the median age here sits at 60.6 against a national figure of 40.4 — and the place has the settled, unhurried feel that comes with that. There's no rail station listed for the village itself, so this isn't a commuter-belt address in the conventional sense; if you work from home, or you're already retired, or you're happy driving to a station elsewhere in Mole Valley, that suits the rhythm here better than a daily dash for a train. Schools are the strongest card in the hand — an A-grade for the area's schooling puts it well above the national average, and that alone will pull in a specific kind of buyer even without small children currently in the house. What you'll find on the market, based on recent sales, is almost entirely freehold semi-detached and detached stock, nothing new-build, nothing flats — a place people buy once and stay, which the low turnover rate (0.6% against a national 1.6%) backs up. At a median of £635,000 (£500,000 in the small recent sample), Headley actually undercuts its own parent district of Mole Valley by around 6%, though it still sits well above the national median — this is affluent, not cheap, and the affordability grade of C+ is the honest counterweight to the schools' A. Green space is generous for the population — 60 hectares across eight sites for 1,210 people is a ratio most towns would envy — and that, paired with a low-density, older-skewed community, is what fills the weekends: walking, gardens, the outdoors rather than a run of restaurants. There isn't a food scene to speak of here, and that's simply the trade-off for the quiet. Full-fibre broadband reaches 60% of the village, decent rather than exceptional, and health provision is graded solidly in line with expectations. The one grade that jars against the overall B+ picture is safety, marked as worsening — anti-social behaviour accounts for nearly two-thirds of the 147 recorded incidents in the past year, which in a village this small can mean a handful of repeat locations rather than a spreading problem, but it's worth sitting with rather than skimming past, because it's the one figure moving the wrong way while almost everything else here is flat or improving. This is a village for people who've already done the commuting years, or who don't need to; for whom good schools matter more than nightlife; and for whom a quiet lane and a slower pace outweigh the absence of a proper high street. It would suit someone who wants Surrey-adjacent countryside without Surrey-adjacent prices, and who can live with an ageing, settled neighbourhood rather than a mixed or youthful one.