Singleton is the sort of place where a For Sale board means a detached house with a paddock view, not a queue of first-time buyers. The population here is tiny, spread thin across the South Downs countryside, and the median age sits well over fifty — this is a settled, established community rather than a place people pass through on the way up a career ladder or a school run rota. Housing tells you most of what you need to know before you even check the schools. Every recorded sale in the village was freehold, the mix leans detached, and the median price comes in above 500,000 pounds — a quarter higher than the already-substantial figure for Chichester district as a whole, which itself sits above the regional average. This is not a stretch-to-afford starter market; it's a place people move to once they've already done the climbing. Singleton CofE Primary and Boxgrove CofE Primary both carry Good Ofsted ratings, so families who do settle here for the long haul have a solid, small-school option close by, though West Dean CofE Primary's Requires Improvement rating is the one grade that breaks the otherwise comfortable pattern — worth a proper look if that catchment matters to you. There's also Great Ballard, an independent school, for those who want a private option in the mix. Day-to-day life here runs at village pace. Green space is generous relative to the national picture, and with a population barely into double figures on paper, you're never competing for a footpath or a pew at the church. There's no long list of restaurants or a bustling parade of shops to describe, because that isn't what Singleton offers — this is a place for walking, for knowing your neighbours, for driving to Chichester or beyond for a proper night out. Transport reflects that: a single stop rather than a station, so this is a driving life, not a commuting one, whatever the excellent connectivity grade suggests about broadband rather than trains. Crime figures are small in absolute terms, as you'd expect from a village this size, and the safety trend reads flat rather than worsening — nothing here is deteriorating, it simply is what it is. The overall pattern is one of quiet affluence rather than dynamism: strong marks for environment, health, and nightlife-adjacent leisure sit alongside a more middling affordability grade, which is really just an honest reflection of what detached Downland houses cost. Singleton suits people who've already decided that space, quiet, and a slower clock matter more than proximity to a station platform or a high street.