Westbourne reads as detached houses behind hedges, a single village school, and the kind of quiet that makes you notice a car door slam. It's a small place — just over two hundred people counted in the local figures — and the streets have that low-density, everyone's-got-a-drive feel that's common in this part of West Sussex rather than in a town. Money-wise, this sits comfortably above the middle of the national picture without being anywhere near the top: a median house price of £460,000 is actually about 11% below what you'd pay across the wider Chichester district, even though it still runs well ahead of the England-wide median. Terraced houses are the most commonly sold type here, which surprises people expecting only large detached homes, and freehold ownership dominates — seventeen of the last twenty-one sales — so a board outside a Westbourne house is usually advertising a proper freehold garden, not a share of a managed block. There's one school in the immediate area, Westbourne Primary, a community school with 166 pupils; families here skew older than the national average (the typical resident is nearly 48, against a national median in the low 40s), so this reads less as a starter-home village and more as a place people settle into for the long run. Green space is tight rather than generous — three small plots totalling half a hectare, which is modest set against the district's usual allowance — so this isn't a village built around a big park; it's one where you drive or walk out to the surrounding countryside instead. The crime figures are low in absolute terms, ten incidents logged in the year, and anti-social behaviour is the largest single category, which in a village this size often means noise or minor disorder rather than anything more serious — worth knowing rather than worrying over. Broadband is solidly average, with about two-thirds of properties on full fibre, so working from home here is entirely workable. Overall the pattern is consistent: strong marks for health, transport connectivity and safety, a school rating in the same comfortable band, and no glaring outlier pulling against the grain — a settled, well-off village rather than a bargain or a gamble, suited to people who value quiet and space over having everything on the doorstep.