Yes. Ash is one of the quieter corners of the Dover district. Crime runs at less than half the district rate. Hardly anyone is out of work. Homes are rarely overcrowded. The biggest disturbance in a typical week is the village talking about the last one.
In the year to May 2026, police recorded 301 crimes across the Ash area, and the published crime rate was about 42 per 1,000 residents. That rate sits roughly 54% below the Dover district average. Both are published figures from police.uk. The rate uses the statistical-area population, so don't try to recreate it by dividing the count by the number of villagers.
Put the two rates side by side. The Ash area comes in at about 42 per 1,000. The Dover district as a whole comes in at about 90. Buyers from the towns tend to expect village crime to be about the same, only with more hedges. The numbers say the gap is real.
Ash is a spread-out area, averaging about 1,030 people per square kilometre across its small statistical areas. Unemployment is about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. That describes a settled, uncrowded, working neighbourhood. It doesn't explain the crime figures, and none of those numbers should be read as a cause. It is simply what the place looks like.
What crime there is breaks down by category like this, each shown against its share of crime across England and Wales. Violence and sexual offences make up about 40% here against about 35% nationally, and that is a broad legal category that includes common assault without injury. It is the biggest category almost everywhere, so its size here says more about how crime is counted than about Ash. Anti-social behaviour makes up about 19% against 16% nationally, criminal damage and arson 11% against 7%, other theft 9% against 7%, other crime 5% against 2%, and burglary 4% against 4%. The overall numbers are small. With a base this low, a handful of incidents can move any share by several points, so treat the mix as a snapshot of one year, not a description of the village. A few smashed wing mirrors don't make a crime wave, whatever the village Facebook group says.
After a crime is reported, it's Kent Police that decides what happens next, and its figures cover the whole county, not Ash. Over the year to May 2026, Kent Police charged a suspect in about 16% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it sixth of 42 forces on that measure. About 36% of cases were closed with no suspect identified. That answers whether they'll catch anyone, not how safe the place is, and the two shouldn't be confused.
On the numbers, safety is one of Ash's real strengths: less than half the district's crime rate, in a place where not much goes wrong.