Detached stone and render houses sit behind hedges and gravel drives here, the kind of place where cars in driveways are more likely to be estate cars with dog guards than anything flashy, and where you notice how few people are actually about. With a population of 45 and a median age pushing 58, this is not a village humming with young families or first-time buyers — it's a settled, older, quiet corner of the coast. If you're weighing up the move on housing and money, the picture is coherent rather than contradictory. Detached houses dominate the sales here, freehold is close to universal, and the median sale price of £442,500 sits well above both the national median and the South Hams average — this is a place priced 26% higher than its own district, which is itself not a cheap part of the country. There's one school in the village, Thurlestone All Saints Church of England Academy, a small primary with around 150 pupils; beyond that you're looking outside the village for secondary education, and outside the village for most day-to-day commuting too — there's no rail station listed here, so this only works if you're driving or already retired from the commute altogether. Green space is modest in raw terms — four plots covering six hectares — but for a village this size that's plenty of room to walk a dog without repeating your steps, and the coastal setting does more work than any formal park could. Crime is genuinely low in absolute terms, just two incidents logged in the past twelve months, though the breakdown skews toward violence and sexual offences at nearly half of all recorded crime — worth noting as the one figure that doesn't fit the otherwise calm, high-grade pattern of the place, even if the underlying count is small enough that a single incident swings the percentage hard. The connectivity grade is the other soft spot: broadband reaches just over half of homes with full fibre, middling by national standards, which matters more here than in a city because there's less to fall back on if you work from home. This suits someone who has already made peace with rural isolation as a feature rather than a bug — retirees, second-home owners, or remote workers who value silence and coastline over convenience. It's a harder sell if you need a school run with options, a rail commute, or the reassurance of neighbours nearby; the quiet that makes Thurlestone appealing is the same quiet you'd need to be sure you want.