Amersham is a safe place to live, and safe by Buckinghamshire's standards too. Crime runs about a quarter below the county average. Almost nobody is out of work. Overcrowding is rare. Burglary is the one category that runs ahead of the national pattern.
Thames Valley Police recorded 1,065 crimes in Amersham in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 49 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 25% below the average for Buckinghamshire as a whole. The rate uses its own population base, so it can't be checked by dividing the count by the town's headcount.
Side by side, Amersham's rate is about 49 per 1,000 and Buckinghamshire's is about 65. Buckinghamshire is a fairly comfortable county to begin with, and Amersham still comes in well below it. Its higher numbers are being recorded elsewhere in Buckinghamshire.
The average Amersham neighbourhood houses about 3,100 people per square kilometre, unemployment is about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. That describes a town of family houses where most adults are in work and most homes have room for the people in them. Those figures describe the place. They don't explain the crime rate, and there is no evidence connecting the two.
By category, violence and sexual offences make up about 36% of Amersham's recorded crime, against about 35% across England and Wales. It is the largest category almost everywhere, and it covers a wide legal range that includes common assault where nobody was hurt. Anti-social behaviour is about 12% here against 16% nationally, so it runs lower. Public order offences are about 9% against 7%, other theft about 9% against 7%, and criminal damage and arson about 7% in both. Burglary stands out, at about 7% of the local total against about 4% nationally. For a particular street, the police.uk crime map shows recorded incidents month by month, and it is the place to check the burglary pattern around a specific house.
Charging is measured across the whole force. Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 37th of 42 forces in England and Wales over the year to May 2026. About 37% of its cases are closed with no suspect identified. That measures the force's results across its whole area, and it has nothing to say about how safe Amersham is.
Safety is one of Amersham's real strengths. Crime is low even for a comfortable county, and the only thing out of line is a burglary share that a buyer should check against the specific street.