Stratton's terraced cottages and stone frontages sit close together along narrow streets, the kind of village fabric that predates cars but has learned to live with them. It's compact enough that you notice the same faces twice in a week, and the housing mix—mostly older terraces rather than anything built for a modern estate—tells you this is a place people move into rather than one that gets built out. The numbers put Stratton in an odd position: an overall grade that reads as well above the national average, built on strong health, transport and nightlife marks, but with a schools grade that sits more modestly in the middle of the pack alongside just one sampled primary, Stratton Primary School, whose Ofsted rating isn't on record here. With a median age of 41.5, this isn't a village dominated by young families doing the school run, nor is it a retirement enclave—it's somewhere in between, populated by people who've settled rather than passed through. Housing is overwhelmingly freehold, and terraced homes dominate what sells, with a median sale price around £293,500—close to the going rate across Cornwall as a whole, just 3% above the county benchmark, so a "For Sale" board here isn't announcing anything dramatic in either direction. Green space is tight—just over a hectare across four plots—so this isn't a village built around parkland; life here happens on the street and in the home rather than sprawled across a common. That compactness cuts both ways: it's part of what gives Stratton its close-knit, walkable texture, but anyone craving open ground for dog walks or weekend picnics will find slim pickings within the village itself. The one figure worth sitting with is crime: violence and sexual offences make up over half of recorded incidents, and the crime rate here runs far higher than the Cornwall average—more than triple, in fact. That's the quiet spine of this place: an area that reads as safe and desirable on paper (the safety grade itself is strong, oddly enough) but carries a crime profile that outpaces its parent authority by a wide margin, worth understanding rather than skating past. This suits someone who wants village scale without wanting to be entirely rural—decent connectivity, a walkable core, older housing stock with character—but who's done their homework on what "safety" means in the small print rather than just the headline grade. It's less obviously suited to those prioritising school choice or wide-open green space, where the options thin out quickly once you look past the surface figures.