Detached houses behind stone or render frontages, gravel driveways with two cars on them, a coastal path in easy reach of most front doors — Wembury reads as a village for people who have already done the hard climbing and want somewhere quiet to land. The median age here sits well into the fifties, a good fifteen years above the national figure, and the streets have that unhurried, mid-morning quality you get where most residents aren't rushing to a school run or a station platform. There's one school in the village, Wembury Primary School, an academy converter with around 190 pupils, and no secondary provision to speak of, so families tend to be those with younger children or none still at home. Transport is a similar story: this is a place organised around the car, not the railway — the payload here has no rail station to speak of, and with 23 bus stops serving a population of only 161, you sense the infrastructure was built for a different, larger catchment than the village itself. Housing tells you who's buying: eighteen recorded sales, all freehold, dominated by detached houses trading at a median of £535,000 — well above the £420,000 national figure for detached stock — and comfortably ahead of the £352,500 median across South Hams as a whole. A For Sale board here is not advertising a starter home. Green space is modest in raw terms — four plots covering just over three hectares — but with only 161 people sharing them, that stretches further than the number suggests, and the coastal position does a lot of the work that a formal park would elsewhere. Health outcomes score strongly against national and regional averages, which tracks with an older, settled population that has the means to look after itself. Crime is low in absolute terms — four incidents recorded in the past year — though violence and sexual offences account for the majority share of the wider crime breakdown, an odd note in an otherwise calm picture; the trend is described as flat rather than worsening, so it reads as background noise rather than a pattern to worry about. This is an affluent corner of the country by any measure — top income and deprivation deciles, an overall grade that sits well above the national average — and it suits people who've already made their money and want to spend retirement, or the run-up to it, somewhere coastal and settled rather than convenient for commuting.