Chiltern brick and timber cladding, big gardens, cars parked on gravel rather than kerbs — South Heath reads as a village that people move to rather than through. It's small, quiet, and the sort of place where a household earning at the very top of the national income scale doesn't feel remarkable; it's just the local norm. The practical picture here is a good one for anyone weighing up commuting against country living. Great Missenden Rail Station gives you a line into London without needing to drive to it, and Great Missenden CofE Combined School, rated Good, covers the primary years within the same small catchment area that defines South Heath itself. The Misbourne School handles secondary, with a solid Progress 8 score suggesting pupils do reasonably well once they're there. It all fits a population with a median age of 50 — this is not a place dominated by young families or twenty-something renters, but by people who've settled, often after raising children elsewhere or moving out from London once the commute became bearable rather than daily. Housing tells the same story from a different angle. Terraced homes are the most commonly sold property type, but freehold ownership dominates absolutely — 23 of 27 recent sales — and the numbers involved sit well above what those property types fetch nationally: a local terrace median around £525,000 against a national figure less than half that. Detached houses here go for over a million, more than double the national detached price. A For Sale board on this street is not advertising a starter home; it's advertising an established, largely mortgage-free (or long-mortgaged) community, priced roughly a quarter above the Buckinghamshire average itself, which is already one of the pricier counties in the country. Green space is limited in raw terms — just under three hectares across two plots — but at this population density, with fields and Chiltern countryside pressing in from every side, that figure understates what's actually within reach. The crime picture is where South Heath quietly earns its keep. The overall safety grade sits at the top of the scale, and although the crime rate looks startling when set against the Buckinghamshire average — over 1900% higher by the raw rate comparison — that's a statistical artefact of a very small population base rather than a lived reality; six recorded incidents in twelve months, in a village of 140 people, is not a pattern to lose sleep over, and the trend is flat rather than worsening. The rest of the grade profile backs this up: schools, transport, connectivity and environment all sit comfortably above the national average, with only housing affordability pulled down by the sheer cost of getting in. This suits people who've already built some equity and want quiet, good broadband (over 70% full-fibre coverage), and a school run that doesn't involve a motorway. It suits them less if they're starting out and need an affordable first rung on the ladder.