Stonequarry is a village of stone-fronted terraces and the odd detached house, the kind of place where the front gardens are tidier than the cars parked outside them, and where you sense most people have been here a while rather than just arrived. With a median age approaching 46, this isn't a place dominated by first-time buyers or shared houses — it's settled, and it looks it. The numbers back up that impression of comfort. Stonequarry sits at the very top of the income and deprivation deciles nationally, which in plain terms means this is among the least deprived, better-off corners of the country. Property here leans heavily towards freehold terraces — of ten recent sales, seven were terraced houses, all freehold, with a median price around £415,000. That's a touch below the wider Mid Sussex figure, so a For Sale board here reads as relatively good value within its own district, even though it's still well above the national median. Rents, at £1,418 a month, sit above both the regional and national norms, which tends to follow when an area attracts people staying rather than passing through. Safety is where Stonequarry quietly separates itself from the pack — an A+ grade against an otherwise strong but unremarkable set of scores (schools, transport and housing all land around B+, connectivity the same). Fourteen crimes across the past year, in a population of just over 500, is a small enough number that any single category — violence, anti-social behaviour, the odd vehicle crime — can look large as a percentage while remaining small in absolute terms. Health is the outlier worth noting: a C+ against a run of As and B+s, the kind of quiet mismatch that's worth asking about if ongoing medical care matters to you, since it doesn't fit the otherwise comfortable pattern. Day-to-day, this reads as a village to live in rather than one to go out in — the nightlife grade is respectable but unremarkable, and there's no sense of a buzzing high street underpinning the place. Full-fibre broadband reaching over 80% of premises suggests plenty of residents work from home at least part of the week, which fits a population that skews older and settled rather than commuter-young. Green space per head runs a little below the regional average, though not dramatically so — this isn't a place built around a big park, more one where gardens and the surrounding countryside do that job instead. Stonequarry suits people who've made a decision to slow down — buying into quiet, freehold bricks and mortar, low crime, and a sense of permanence, rather than convenience or nightlife. The trade-off is a place with less going on after dark and a health grade that doesn't quite match the rest of the picture. If what you want is safety, space, and neighbours who stay put, this delivers it; if you're chasing an evening economy or diverse local services, look elsewhere in the district.