Pyrland is the kind of place where the terraces have been repainted rather than knocked through, and the parked cars on the street skew German and recently washed. It sits within Richmond upon Thames, and it looks it — the sort of London suburb where a flat above a row of independent shops costs more than a house does almost anywhere else in the country, and nobody seems especially surprised by that. The numbers back up the impression rather than create it. A median house price of £680,000 is above even Richmond's own borough-wide figure, and against the national median of £281,000 this is unambiguously a well-off corner of the country — though the local income decile (6) sits more modestly than the property prices might suggest, which tells you some of this money is inherited or historic rather than all earned locally. Schooling is where Pyrland actually overperforms: St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School carries an Outstanding rating, and it sits alongside Good-rated options like The Vineyard School and Sheen Mount Primary, giving a family real choice rather than one lottery ticket. Transport is the one flat note in an otherwise strong picture — connectivity and transport grades land in the C range, and with nine stops serving the area rather than a cluster of rail options, this reads as a place you drive from or cycle from more than one you commute out of on foot to a station. Green space is generous for inner London terms — seven separate spaces adding up to over 18 hectares gives Pyrland roughly four times the green space per head of the regional average, which explains why dog walkers and pram-pushers seem to outnumber commuters outside peak hours. The area's overall crime figure, 212 incidents across the year, sits far above Richmond's borough-wide rate — more than double, in fact — though violence and anti-social behaviour make up the bulk of that, the kind of urban-suburban crime mix rather than anything organised, and the trend line here is quietly improving rather than worsening. That's the one place where the picture doesn't sit neatly with the leafy, well-schooled, house-proud character elsewhere — a genuinely safe-feeling, A-graded environment paired with a crime rate that runs hot against its own neighbours. Health provision reads middling too, a C grade that doesn't quite match the affluence around it. Housing here is dominated by leasehold flats — 26 of the 50 recent sales — despite the streetscape's more house-heavy feel, which tells you the market is really two markets: family houses trading well above a million, and a churn of flats that let younger professionals and downsizers buy into the postcode without buying into the garden. That mix, plus a median age of 44.9, points to an area of settled owner-occupiers and older families more than a starter-home crowd. If you want green space, strong schools and don't mind driving or relying on buses rather than a train line into town, Pyrland holds up. If a fast rail commute or affordable entry are the priority, the numbers here will work against you before anything else does.