Detached houses behind low brick walls, a scattering of semis filling the gaps, and barely a flat in sight — Preston Village reads as settled, ordinary, comfortable rather than flashy. It sits at the edge of Faversham's built-up fringe in Swale, the kind of pocket where the school run and the commute matter more than the nightlife. The housing picture tells you who buys here: freehold dominates almost completely, detached homes lead the sales mix, and a median price of £370,000 runs well above both the Swale average and the wider national figure, though it sits closer to the regional norm for the South East. That premium shows up most sharply in the detached market, where local prices clear £572,000 against a national figure of £420,000 — this is a place where the bigger house costs a genuine premium over the country as a whole. On schools, the picture is mixed rather than reassuring: The Abbey School's secondary provision carries an Inadequate rating and negative progress score, a rare sore thumb against an otherwise solid B-grade area, so families weighing secondary options will want to look beyond the immediate village. The two primaries, Ethelbert Road and Ospringe Church of England, are smaller community and voluntary-controlled schools without a published Ofsted grade in this data, which makes them worth a direct look rather than an assumption either way. Crime sits at a level that earns Preston Village a B+ for safety, with violence and anti-social behaviour the two categories that dominate the local count — not unusual for a place this size, and the trend has been flat rather than worsening, which counts for something if you're the anxious type. Green space and connectivity both score comfortably (B and B+), and with full-fibre broadband reaching most premises, working from home here is a realistic, not aspirational, option. Rent runs a little above the national median, which fits a place with more family houses than starter flats — you're not paying a premium to be near much nightlife (nightlife grades a plain B), and the population density, lower than both the regional and national averages, tells its own story: this isn't a place that feels crowded. Preston Village suits someone who has already decided that space and quiet matter more than proximity to a buzzing high street — a homeowner trading up into a detached house, prepared to make an active choice about secondary schooling rather than default to the nearest option. The affordability grade of B, set against prices well above the district and national medians, means it isn't a bargain corner of Swale; it's a place you pay slightly over the odds for a settled, low-density, freehold-dominated existence, and for many people weighing that trade-off, it will make sense.