St Fagans reads as detached houses behind stone walls, the museum crowds drifting off toward the castle grounds, and not much traffic noise beyond that. It's a village in the technical sense but a well-heeled suburb in every practical one — Cardiff's edge softened by fields and a National History Museum car park that fills up faster than any road in the village itself. The numbers back up what you'd guess from walking round: this sits among the least deprived tenth of Wales on both income and general deprivation, and the housing stock matches that story. Detached homes dominate what sells here, almost all of it freehold, with a median sale price around £333,000 — well above the Welsh average and roughly 28% higher than Cardiff as a whole. A "For Sale" board on one of these streets is advertising space and quiet rather than a starter home; the one flat sold in the recent sample is the exception that proves it. Ysgol Gynradd Groes Wen is the primary school named locally, a small community school by the numbers (124 pupils), and Wales doesn't run the Ofsted-style ratings you might be used to elsewhere, so judge it by reputation and a visit rather than a grade. With a median age of 40.5, this isn't a village full of first-time buyers — it's settled families and older professionals who've traded a commute for space. Green space is oddly modest on paper — five plots covering just over a hectare, less than you'd expect for the setting, though the museum grounds and surrounding countryside do a lot of the heavy lifting that the raw figure doesn't capture. Full-fibre broadband reaches a solid majority of homes (83.5%), which matters more than it used to now that plenty of residents work from those detached houses several days a week. The overall grade profile is consistently solid — B-range across schools, transport, health, connectivity — with housing the standout at the top of the scale. The one figure that jars against all this is safety: crime sits far above the Cardiff rate, over five times higher by the parent comparison, driven mostly by violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour categories. With only 267 people living here, a relatively small number of incidents swings the rate hard, and it's worth reading that context rather than the multiplier alone — but it's the one number in this file that doesn't match the postcard. This suits people who want Cardiff's orbit without Cardiff's density — families with school-age or grown children, professionals working from home a few days a week, anyone who values a detached house and quiet lanes over nightlife on the doorstep. It won't suit someone chasing an urban commute rhythm or hunting for a flat under six figures. The crime figures are worth sitting with rather than dismissing, but weighed against the affluence, the space, and the schools grade, most people who can afford to live here already know why they'd want to.