Talbot Woods reads as detached-house territory the moment you turn off the main road — mature gardens, gravel drives, the kind of quiet that comes from people not needing to be anywhere in a hurry. It sits in the top decile nationally for deprivation, meaning this is among the more comfortable corners of the country, and the streets carry themselves accordingly: no shopfronts pressing in, no student clutter despite Bournemouth University and the Arts University Bournemouth both sitting close by. The presence of the universities nearby without their footprint intruding on the streetscape tells you something useful — this is a place that borders student Bournemouth without becoming it. The property market confirms the character rather than complicating it. Sales here are almost entirely detached freehold houses — ten of eleven recent sales were detached, every one of them freehold — and the median price of £510,000 sits well above both the regional figure of £305,000 and the parent authority's £334,000, a premium of over 50%. A "For Sale" board on this street is not advertising a starter home or a flat conversion; it's advertising a family house that someone intends to stay in, reflected in a turnover rate close to the national norm rather than a place that churns. Median age of 38 alongside that price tag suggests established professional households rather than first-time buyers, and council tax band D costs of £1,482 track a little above the national median, consistent with the housing stock rather than a shock on its own. Green space and connectivity round out the picture rather than dominate it. Full fibre reaches 78% of properties here, comfortably ahead of what you'd expect regionally, so working from the study at the back of the house is a realistic option rather than an aspiration. The one place the pattern breaks is safety: against a grade profile that otherwise sits solidly in the "well above average" band — affordability, connectivity, environment, housing, schools all graded B+ — the crime rate runs noticeably hotter than the parent authority's average, and violence and anti-social behaviour together account for two-thirds of recorded incidents. With totals this low in absolute terms a handful of incidents can swing the percentage sharply, so it's worth reading as a caution rather than an alarm, but it is the one grade that doesn't match the rest of the story. Who ends up here tends to be settled rather than searching — households who've already done the moving around and want the next move to be the last one for a while. The premium you pay buys space, quiet, and fibre broadband rather than nightlife or density, and the trade-off is a crime picture that asks a slightly closer look than the leafy exterior suggests. If what you want is a detached house with a garden and don't need much else on the doorstep, it holds together well; if you're pricing against the regional median expecting typical suburb economics, the 50% premium over the local authority average is the number to sit with first.