Shirley sits within the New Forest district, one of those places whose name you'll find repeated across the country, and the data here is thin enough that it's worth being straight about what can and can't be said with any confidence. There's no meaningful area-level detail to draw on for Shirley itself — no crime figures, no school records, no transport counts, no breakdown of housing stock. What we do have is a single reference point: the district of New Forest around it carries a median house price of £385,000, noticeably above the national median of £281,000, which places this corner of the South East on the pricier side of the country generally. That's a useful frame, but it's a district-wide figure, not a Shirley one, so it tells you more about the neighbourhood Shirley belongs to than about the streets themselves. Beyond that comparison, I'd be guessing, and this is exactly the sort of place where guessing does you a disservice. If you're weighing up a move here, the honest next step is to look at the specific postcode — the school Ofsted ratings, the crime breakdown, the rail links, the actual mix of flats and houses on the ground — because none of that has surfaced in what's available for Shirley as a named locality. What's here points to a moderately affluent part of the South East; what's missing is everything that would tell you whether you'd regret it.