Detached houses behind stone walls, gravel drives, cars that skew German and recent — Southgate reads as money that arrived some time ago and settled in. There's no high street to speak of here, just under six hundred people spread thinly across the ground, and the average age sits well into the fifties, which tells you this is a place people move to once, rather than pass through. The numbers back up the visual: this sits in the top decile for both income and deprivation in Wales, meaning Southgate is about as comfortable as anywhere in the country gets. A typical sale here lands around £380,500, roughly double the Welsh median, and detached homes fetch materially more than the Welsh average for the same type — this isn't a village where the price reflects a good school catchment or a fast commute so much as the land and the address itself. Freehold ownership dominates, unsurprising given the property mix, and with only twenty sales a year to sample, turnover is slow — people buy in and stay. Schooling is thin on the ground too: Pennard Primary is the only school the area returns, a small community school of around 170 pupils, and with no Estyn grade listed here, you'd want to visit and judge for yourself rather than lean on a rating. Green space is tight in absolute terms — just a couple of named plots totalling a little over two hectares — but that undersells what's actually on the doorstep in this part of the Gower, and the appeal here has always been about what lies beyond the village boundary rather than a park within it. Full-fibre broadband reaches about four in five homes, which is a decent baseline if you're working from a home office rather than commuting daily. There isn't a rail station returned for this area, so anyone tied to a regular train commute should treat that as a real question mark rather than an oversight. The crime figure is where you have to read carefully. Nine incidents across the year is a very small number in absolute terms, barely above Swansea's own household crime rate as a whole — but half of those nine were classed as violence and sexual offences, which sounds alarming stated as a share until you remember the small base it's drawn from. It's the one place in an otherwise uniformly comfortable set of figures — strong on affordability, environment, and general safety grading — where the pattern doesn't quite match the rest of the story, and it's worth asking a local for the detail rather than reading the percentage cold. This suits people who've already made their money and want space, quiet, and distance from a high street rather than a spot on one — older buyers, established families, or anyone who works from home and doesn't need a station platform each morning. It's less suited to a commuter chasing a fast rail link into Swansea, or a family wanting a wide pick of local schools to choose between.