Stoneyford's streets are the kind where semi-detached and detached houses sit in roughly equal number, freehold boards outnumber anything else, and nothing here has been thrown up recently — there's no new-build estate pulling in first-time buyers on Help to Buy. This is settled, older housing stock in a small village of under 700 people, and it reads that way: quiet frontages, gardens rather than balconies, cars parked on driveways rather than kerbs. The numbers back up that impression of stability more than dynamism. A median house price a touch above £280,000 sits almost exactly level with Mid Devon as a whole, and comfortably below the national average — this is a place where property is among the less expensive corners of the country without being cheap in any alarming sense. Income levels sit squarely in the middle of the national spread, and the Ofsted picture across local schools is solid rather than exceptional. There's no rail station listed here, and only four transport stops serve the village, so this reads as a driving village first — you'll want a car, not a season ticket, and the median age of 39 suggests families and settled professionals rather than young commuters chasing a fast line into a city. Green space is thin on paper — just two plots totalling half a hectare, well below what you'd find in most comparable places — so this isn't a village built around a sprawling park; any outdoor life here is more about the surrounding countryside than a named local green. That thinness is worth weighing against the housing grade, which comes out strongly ahead of the rest of the profile: this is clearly a place people buy into for the property itself, the freehold, the space, rather than for amenity-rich village life. Restaurant and leisure options aren't part of the picture that emerges from the data, and the connectivity grade — a solid B, with close to 60% full-fibre coverage — suggests working from home is a realistic, well-supported option, which matters more than a commute when there's no station to speak of. The safety picture deserves a straight look rather than a glance. The overall grade sits at a strong B+, safety itself is graded top-tier, yet violence and sexual offences account for over four in ten recorded incidents locally, well ahead of anti-social behaviour or criminal damage, which trail far behind. With a small population, raw counts here can swing more than they would in a larger town, so it's worth reading that share as a feature of a small dataset rather than a lived daily reality — but it's the one grade that sits slightly out of step with an otherwise reassuring pattern of low deprivation (decile 8) and settled, freehold homeownership. Taken together, Stoneyford suits someone who wants a quiet, car-dependent village life, values space and permanence in a home over walkable amenities, and is comfortable working remotely rather than commuting by rail.