Detached houses behind hedges and gravel drives, a scatter of period brick, barely a soul on the pavement — Leigh reads as the kind of Surrey village where the postman knows everyone by name and there are only twenty-odd people to know. This is not a place with a high street pulling in passing trade; it's a place people drive into and out of on their own errands, deliberately. The numbers behind that impression are stark: a population in the twenties and a median age of 53 tell you this is a settled, older community rather than a starter-home village. Property here is almost entirely detached and freehold — every sale in the local sample was freehold, four of seven detached — and a median sale price near £995,000 sits well above even the wider Mole Valley figure, itself already 88% above the national median. A "For Sale" board on this lane means a family selling a long-held house, not a first-time buyer's flat. The schools picture is thin on the ground locally — Moon Hall School in nearby Reigate is the one named institution in range, an independent special school rather than a mainstream option — so anyone with school-age children will likely be looking at catchments beyond the village itself, and commuting patterns follow the same logic: there's no rail station or dense transport network flagged here, just eight local stops, so this reads as a driving village rather than a walk-to-the-platform one. Life here is quiet by design. Green space is modest in raw terms — three plots covering just over a hectare — but the grading pattern tells the real story: environment, health, safety, schools, nightlife and transport are all rated well above the national average, an unusually consistent spread for a place this size. The one crime recorded in the past year, logged as anti-social behaviour, barely registers, and the wider crime breakdown (a handful of burglary and violence incidents) reads as background noise in a village this small rather than a pattern worth worrying about. Broadband is respectable rather than exceptional, with 60% full-fibre coverage — fine for remote work, not cutting-edge. There isn't a bustling parade of restaurants or pubs named in the data, and that absence is itself the point: this isn't a destination for a Saturday out, it's a place you retreat to after one. Leigh suits people who've already made their money and want quiet, space, and greenery over convenience — retirees, established professionals working from home, or families buying a long-term home rather than a first rung on the ladder. It will frustrate anyone wanting a walkable high street, a nearby station, or younger neighbours; the trade-off here is privacy and calm bought at the price of activity and easy transport links.