Sherburn is rows of stone-fronted semis and terraces along a village high street, the sort of place where you recognise cars more than faces at first, then eventually the faces too. It's small — under a thousand people — and it sits at a density that feels more suburban street than rural idyll, but the housing stock and the pace of the place still read as village rather than commuter-belt overspill. The numbers around income and deprivation put Sherburn towards the less advantaged end nationally, yet the overall grade profile doesn't sag to match — it holds up well on affordability, health and transport, with schooling and safety trailing as the softer patches. That's the quiet tension here: a place with real financial constraints that still scores like a functioning, well-served village. A For Sale board reads accordingly — mostly freehold semis and terraces, the kind of stock a first-time buyer or a family trading up from a flat elsewhere in the North East could actually afford, with a median sale price sitting well under both the regional and national norms. County Durham's own average house price is lower still, so Sherburn actually costs more than its unitary authority's typical home, even as it undercuts the country by a wide margin. There's one school in the village, Sherburn Primary, a community school of modest size — the kind of place where a parent walks a child down the same street they walked themselves, though secondary options and any Ofsted read will need checking separately since none is rated here. Sixteen transport stops give the village decent bus coverage for a place this size, which matters more than it might elsewhere given the absence of a rail station in the picture. Green space is present but not generous — six pockets amounting to under five hectares, modest against the regional average per head, so this isn't a village built around long dog walks so much as smaller, closer-to-home outdoor space. Full-fibre broadband reaches most premises, which matters if working from home is part of the plan. The crime picture is where the village's one visibly out-of-step grade lives: violence and sexual offences make up over a third of recorded incidents, and the overall crime rate sits sharply above the County Durham average, even though the trend itself is described as flat rather than worsening. It's worth sitting with that rather than skating past it — a flat trend on a high base is still a high base. This suits someone who wants a small, settled, affordable place with decent connectivity and isn't chasing green acreage or nightlife, and who's done their own homework on the safety figures rather than taking the overall grade at face value. It's less suited to anyone who wants a big secondary school choice on the doorstep or a rail season ticket built into daily life — those aren't features of this village, at least not on what's visible here.