Ascot is a safe place to live, and comfortably so. Crime runs about a third below the rest of the borough. The mix of offences looks much like the national one. Hardly anyone is out of work. Ascot is safe in the way that well-off, owner-occupied places usually are, and the police record backs that up.
Thames Valley Police recorded 1,623 crimes across the Ascot area in the year to May 2026. That gives a published rate of about 47 per 1,000 residents, roughly 32% below the Windsor and Maidenhead average. Those figures cover a full twelve months, from June 2025 to May 2026, so one bad weekend can't change the picture.
Across Windsor and Maidenhead as a whole, the rate over the same twelve months was about 69 crimes per 1,000 residents, against Ascot's 47. Because the borough includes Windsor and Maidenhead themselves, the average is set by its two busiest towns, and Ascot comes in well below it.
The neighbourhoods behind those numbers average about 2,390 residents per square kilometre. Around 2% of residents are unemployed and around 2% of households are overcrowded. Ascot has wide verges, big houses and Windsor Great Park at the end of the road, and none of those generates much paperwork for the police.
Violence and sexual offences made up about 40% of recorded crime, against about 35% nationally. That category is the largest almost everywhere and includes common assault where nobody was injured. Anti-social behaviour accounted for about 16%, the same as the national share. Other theft was about 9% against 7% nationally, public order about 8% against 7%, criminal damage and arson about 8% against 7%, and vehicle crime about 6% against 5%. Every category is within a few points of the national figure, so Ascot's crime looks ordinary in type and its low total is the notable thing. In Ascot, "a very safe area" is one of the few phrases in the particulars that the police figures support.
A crime rate measures how often things happen. The charge rate measures what the police do about them. Across its whole force area, Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally. That places it 37th of 42 forces. About 37% of its cases close with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures for the twelve months to May 2026, and they say nothing about Ascot's own streets. The area's safety comes from how little crime happens, and it would be the same with a better detection rate.
If one street matters to you, look up its own recent record before you offer. Safety is one of Ascot's real strengths, and among the published crime figures for the area, none points the other way.