Detached stone and render houses line the roads into Raglan, most sitting behind hedges rather than fences, with the kind of gravel driveways that mean two cars is the norm rather than the exception. This isn't a place with a bustling parade of shops so much as a scatter of houses around a historic core — the sort of village people move to rather than pass through, and the average age here backs that up: at 55.5, Raglan skews well above the Welsh average of 43.1, which tells you more about the place than any brochure would. The practical picture is straightforward if you already know what you're buying into. There's one school in the village, Raglan Primary, a voluntary controlled school with 165 pupils — Wales doesn't run an Ofsted system, so there's no letter grade to lean on, but a school of that size in a village this small tends to be a known quantity to everyone living here. Ten transport stops serve the village, though this reads as a bus-and-car existence rather than a rail-commuter one; if you're working in Newport or Cardiff, you're driving to a station rather than walking to one. Housing is dominated by detached freehold homes — thirteen of thirteen recent sales were freehold, ten of those detached — and at a median of £450,000 against £318,000 across Monmouthshire, a For Sale board here signals a family home bought outright rather than a first step on any ladder. Green space is modest in scale — six pockets totalling under two hectares — but it's the kind of village where you're more likely to walk a dog down a lane than to a formal park, and that suits the demographic already living here. What stands out most is the safety picture: crime sits at a handful of incidents across the year, and even though the rate looks startlingly high against Monmouthshire's average on paper, the raw numbers are so small that a couple of car break-ins or a single violent incident swing the percentage wildly — this is a place where an A+ safety grade is the more honest signal than the year-on-year comparison. Violence and sexual offences top the list at eight incidents, vehicle crime next, but read these as isolated entries in a very short log, not a pattern to plan your life around. Raglan sits among the better-off tenth of Wales on both income and deprivation measures, and the health grade here is similarly strong — this tracks with an older, settled, comfortably-off population rather than a young one climbing the property ladder. It suits people who've already done the moving-around phase of life: retirees, established professionals working from home or driving to a regional hub, families who want space and quiet over convenience. It's less suited to anyone wanting a rail commute, a lively evening scene, or a starter home — the price point and property mix simply aren't built for that. If what you're after is a settled, low-density, historically-rooted village with space around the house and few surprises, Raglan delivers that with little to apologise for.