Detached houses behind hedges, a scatter of terraces near the centre, and not much passing traffic beyond the school run — that's the visual shorthand for Landkey. It's a village in the proper sense: small enough that the population barely troubles three figures in the data, quiet enough that you notice a car going past. The housing picture and the people in it fit together neatly. Sales here skew heavily towards detached homes on freehold titles, which is what you'd expect of a settlement this size, and the median sale price sits close to £297,500, roughly in line with North Devon as a whole and a touch above the national median. It's not cheap for the region, but it isn't a stretch beyond it either. The median age of just under 49 tells you who's actually buying — this is settled, established Devon, not a first-rung-of-the-ladder sort of place. Landkey Community Primary Academy is the one school in the village, and with 186 pupils it's clearly the centre of family life here even without a published Ofsted grade to point to. If you need a rail commute, you're looking beyond the village boundary — there's nothing in the numbers to suggest a station of its own, so anyone working away will be doing it by road. Green space is generous relative to the size of the place — nine separate patches adding up to a meaningful chunk of land per head, well above the regional average once you scale it against the population. That shapes the rhythm here more than any restaurant count could: this is a walk-the-dog-and-know-your-neighbours sort of village rather than one with a run of cafés and takeaways to browse. The overall Check Local grade lands at A, driven by strong marks for environment, nightlife (relative to expectation for a place this size) and transport connectivity — full-fibre broadband reaches about two-thirds of properties, which is a solid base for anyone working from home. Safety sits a notch below that pattern at B+, and it's worth being straightforward about the crime figures: the total recorded incidents over the year are low in absolute terms, but violence and sexual offences account for over half of them, a concentration that's worth noting even against a small base number. It's the one grade that breaks from the otherwise uniformly strong picture, and it's the honest asterisk on an otherwise comfortable-looking place. Landkey suits people who've made peace with a slower pace and don't need a station platform on the doorstep — retirees, established families with a car each, anyone who values a garden and a hedge over a high street. It's less suited to those who want nightlife within stumbling distance or a wide choice of schools to weigh up. The trade-off is straightforward: you're buying quiet and green space, and accepting that everything else is a drive away.