Yes, and the numbers are not close. Crime in Aldwick runs at about forty incidents per thousand residents a year. The Arun district as a whole sits at about ninety. That puts Aldwick at roughly fifty-five percent below its own local-authority average, and that local-authority average already includes the town of Bognor next door and its busier evenings. Aldwick is the part of the borough where the numbers cool off, the houses get older, and the residents go to bed earlier. The village is one of the safer postcodes on the south coast, and not by accident.
Across the twelve months from April 2025 to March 2026, about three hundred and thirty recorded crimes were logged in the Aldwick area, against a population of around five and a half thousand. That is fewer than one a day across the whole village, every category counted together: theft, anti-social behaviour, criminal damage, drug offences, vehicle crime, assault, the lot. The Arun-wide rate of around ninety per thousand reflects a district that also takes in the seafront strip of Bognor Regis, the town centre, and the more transient parts of the town's housing. Aldwick is none of those things. Owner-occupied households make up nearly nine in ten of the village. The median age is sixty-two. About one home in five is a single pensioner. Couples with children make up about one home in nine. None of those characteristics correlate with the volume crime that pulls a postcode's numbers up, which is why the headline rate sits where it does. The crime types that do show up here are the ones that show up in any quiet residential area: opportunistic vehicle break-ins on a still evening, the occasional shed forced for whatever was in it, the neighbour dispute that gets logged because somebody decided to ring. Aldwick has no nightlife economy, no town-centre footfall, and no transient population to speak of, which between them remove most of the conditions under which crime statistics tend to climb. The headline reputation of the wider Bognor area is partly fair to Bognor and entirely unfair to the village two miles west of it.
Aldwick rates five out of five on safety, which is what a place looks like when a quiet seaside village stays a quiet seaside village. Buy here and most of the security spend is on habit rather than hardware. The lock on the front door will not be the most expensive thing about the house. You will not lie awake counting whether you set the alarm, because the kind of evening that needs an alarm is not the kind of evening Aldwick throws.