Terraced rows and a handful of semis line the streets here, the kind of village edge where Newport's suburbs finally give way to something quieter and more self-contained. It's a small place — under five hundred people — and it feels it: low-rise, unhurried, the sort of spot you'd drive through without registering unless you already had a reason to stop. The numbers back up that impression of steadiness more than excitement. Housing here runs almost entirely to freehold terraces, fourteen recent sales putting the median around £207,500 — a shade below both the Welsh average house price and, notably, below Newport itself, the council area it sits within. That's a village where a for-sale board usually means a modest terrace changing hands outright, not a developer's show home; there's been no new-build activity at all recently. On schooling, Underwood has just the one option in range, Llanmartin Junior & Infants, a community primary of just over a hundred pupils — fine for a family with young children, though older ones will be looking further afield. Transport is modest too: a scatter of bus stops rather than a rail link, so this reads as a driving village more than a commuter one. Green space is generous relative to the built-up feel — six separate patches across the village, nearly six hectares in total, which for a population this size means genuine breathing room rather than a token strip of grass. What it doesn't offer is much of a night out: the nightlife grade sits noticeably below every other measure here, the one flat note in an otherwise strong chord, so eating and drinking out likely means a short drive rather than a stroll. Healthcare and environment both score strongly, and that pairing — good air, decent access, plenty of open ground — suggests a place people use for walking the dog and being outdoors rather than for evenings out. The one figure worth sitting with is crime: anti-social behaviour and public order incidents make up half of all recorded crime, and taken together the rate here runs well above Newport's own average despite the low absolute count — fourteen incidents in a village this size lands harder statistically than it would in a bigger place. It's a genuine trade-off against an otherwise calm, well-kept, above-average setting on paper. Underwood suits someone who wants space, quiet, and a modest freehold rather than nightlife or a rail commute — and who's done their own homework on the safety picture rather than taken the overall grade at face value.