Detached houses on generous plots, mature hedging, cars that skew new and German — this is the look of Whittington, and it tells you most of what you need to know before you've read a single stat. It's a village in the practical sense too: 241 people, a density nowhere close to the region's, and a median age of 46 that puts it well past the West Midlands' usual profile. Whoever's buying here isn't chasing a starter home. The property market backs that up plainly. Detached houses dominate the sales here, freehold is essentially the only tenure that trades hands, and with a median sale price of £405,000 against a national detached median of £420,000 for a much bigger house, a For Sale board on this street is advertising space and quiet rather than square footage per pound. That price sits 35.7% above the wider Lichfield district's median, which itself isn't cheap — this is a premium pocket within a comfortable area, not a bargain corner of it. Schooling is thinner on the ground: Whittington Primary and Nursery School serves the immediate community, and beyond that you're looking outward, which matters if you're weighing this against places with more secondary choice on the doorstep. Green space is generous relative to the population — fourteen separate plots of it, over seventeen hectares in total, more than the national average per head — so the rhythm of life here leans outdoorly: dog walks, garden projects, the odd pub lunch rather than a strip of restaurants to choose between. This isn't a place with a restaurant scene to speak of, and that's consistent with the rest of the picture — it's residential first, sociable second. Full-fibre broadband reaches around seven in ten homes, enough for remote work to function without drama, and connectivity and transport both score well against the national picture even though this reads as a driving village more than a station one. The one figure worth sitting with is crime: overall it's low in absolute terms, and safety grades well, but violence and sexual offences account for over four in ten of the incidents recorded here — a heavier concentration in that single category than the spread of anti-social behaviour, theft and burglary you'd expect to see leading the list elsewhere. It hasn't moved either way lately; the trend is flat, not worsening. Taken with everything else — the affluence, the space, the age profile — this reads as a settled, well-off village that suits people who've already done the school-gate years or never needed them, who want land and quiet over nightlife and choice, and who won't mind that the practical infrastructure of shops and eating out lives elsewhere.