Shirburn is the sort of place you drive through slowly without quite meaning to — a scatter of houses around a park and a church, with fewer people living here than in a single suburban street elsewhere. There's no high street to speak of, no row of shopfronts to read the place by; the character comes instead from the fields around it and the fact that everyone here has, in some sense, chosen quiet over convenience. That trade-off shows up hardest in the numbers on housing. Sales are rare enough that the seven recorded in the data tell you as much about the type of buyer as the type of house: mostly semi-detached and detached, all freehold, with a median price of £535,000 sitting comfortably above both the South Oxfordshire district figure and well clear of the national median. This is a place bought outright rather than financed on a stretch, and a median age past the late forties tells the same story — people tend to arrive here settled, not starting out. Schooling nearby includes Lewknor Church of England Primary and Watlington Primary, both small, alongside Icknield Community College for secondary; none carry a published Ofsted grade in this data, so you'd want to visit and judge for yourself rather than lean on a headline rating. Transport is thin by design — a couple of stops rather than a station on the doorstep — so this reads as a driving life, not a rail-commute one. Green space is oddly modest on paper, just a fraction of a hectare across two plots, but that undersells what actually surrounds the village: the working countryside itself is the amenity, and it's not the kind of place that needs a formal park when the fields do the job. Eating out, nightlife, and dense healthcare provision aren't really features of Shirburn itself — you'd be travelling for all three, and the data doesn't pretend otherwise. What stands out instead is safety: the overall grade sits well above the national average, and even though the raw crime count over the year looks concentrated in violent and anti-social categories on a chart, the actual number of incidents is small enough that a couple of reports can swing the percentages. The trend is flat, which in a village this size just means nothing much happens, repeatedly. This suits someone who has already decided that space and calm outrank convenience — a household that owns outright, drives everywhere, and wants schooling and shops to be a short trip rather than a fixture on the corner. It would frustrate anyone who wants a walkable town centre, a regular train into a city, or an evening out that doesn't involve a car home.