Pennard sits out on the Gower peninsula, and the houses tell you that before anything else does — detached stone and render, big gardens, cars that look like they've done some green-laning. This isn't a place with a high street of betting shops and vape stores; it's a village built around space, coastline, and the kind of quiet that comes from being somewhere people choose to retire to rather than pass through. The age profile backs that up — a median age well into the fifties, noticeably older than the Welsh average — and that shapes everything else. There's one school in the village, Pennard Primary, a community school with around 170 pupils; Wales doesn't run an Ofsted system, so there's no letter grade to quote, but the area's own schools grading comes in weaker than everything around it, the one obvious dent in an otherwise strong set of scores. If you're moving here with young children, that's worth sitting with rather than skating past. Property is dominated by detached freehold homes — seventeen of the twenty recent sales were freehold, and detached houses alone fetch well over four hundred thousand locally against a Welsh detached average closer to three twenty-five. A "For Sale" board here is advertising space and permanence, not a starter home. The green space is the actual headline, even if the data won't shout it: nearly seventy hectares of it across five sites, in a village of under three thousand people, which is a startling ratio next to the density of a typical Welsh settlement. That's the coast path, the common, the kind of walking that doesn't require a car journey first. Health provision reads as solid rather than exceptional, and the broadband is decent without being cutting-edge — four in five properties have full fibre, which is fine for remote work but not something to take entirely for granted out here. Crime is low in absolute terms, fifty incidents across a year, and running dramatically below the rate in Swansea itself, the city this village technically belongs to for administrative purposes; safety is genuinely one of the strongest things about living here. The one crime category worth naming honestly is violence and sexual offences, which accounts for half of all recorded incidents — a share worth understanding rather than a reason for alarm, given how small the overall number is. This is a place for people who've already done the commuting years, or who work from home and want silence and a view rather than a station platform. Income and deprivation deciles sit at the very top for Wales, so this is an affluent corner by any measure, and the price sits above the Welsh median accordingly — not London money, but not a bargain either. The trade-off is straightforward: exceptional environment and safety, a thin school offer, and a housing stock that assumes you can afford to buy outright and mean to stay.