Semi-detached and terraced houses dominate the streets here, nearly all of it freehold, and the sale boards that go up tend to stay up briefly — this is a settled, low-turnover corner where people buy once and stay. The average age skews well above the national norm, and it shows in the pace of the place: quiet front gardens, cars that don't move much before mid-morning, a sense of a community that has already worked out its rhythms rather than one still forming them. The money side of St Anne's tells its own story. A median house price sitting well above both the Lewes district average and the wider South East puts this among the pricier pockets of an already expensive region — semi-detached homes here fetch more than double the national median for the same property type. Against that, the council tax band D figure and median rent are only modestly above the national picture, which suggests the premium is mostly baked into buying rather than renting. It's a place decile 8 on deprivation measures would recognise as comfortable, though the income decile sits more in the middle, hinting that the wealth here is often older and property-based rather than salary-driven. Green space is not this area's selling point — one plot of under four hectares is what's recorded locally, well short of the regional norm per head, so anyone wanting acres to roam will be looking beyond the immediate streets. What stands out instead is safety: an A grade for a suburb where the wider region logs anti-social behaviour and violent crime as the top two categories nationally is a genuinely unusual pattern, and worth sitting with. The area's own recent crime count is low in absolute terms, and the trend reads flat rather than worsening — this isn't a place cleaning up its act, it's one that's simply been steady. Connectivity is solid too, with full fibre reaching a good majority of properties, so working from one of these houses is a realistic proposition rather than a compromise. Put together, this is a place for people who've already done their moving around — a household that wants a freehold semi in a settled, low-crime setting and can absorb a price that runs well ahead of the district average. It won't suit someone chasing parkland on the doorstep or a bargain entry point, and the modest population here means you're buying into a small, tightly held pocket rather than a sprawling suburb with room to negotiate. If what you want is quiet predictability at a premium, this is closer to the answer than most.