Yes, and safer than the borough around it. Crime runs nearly a third below the Spelthorne rate. The mix of offences looks much like the rest of the country. The serious categories come in slightly under the national pattern. The busy end of the borough is somewhere else.
Over the year to May 2026, police records show a published rate of 64 crimes per 1,000 people for Ashford Common. That is about 30% below Spelthorne's average. Across the same twelve months, 954 crimes were recorded in the area. The rate is calculated on the police's own statistical-area population base, so dividing the count by the number of residents will not reproduce it. Use the published rate.
For Spelthorne as a whole, the comparable published rate is 91 crimes per 1,000 people, against Ashford Common's 64. Whatever drives the borough's figure up, it is happening mostly beyond these streets of semis and bungalows. A borough average describes the borough. The police's online crime map shows reports street by street, so an evening with it on the particular road you are looking at is time well spent.
Ashford Common is fairly densely built for somewhere so made up of houses and gardens, at about 4,970 people per square kilometre. Unemployment was 3% at the 2021 census, and under 5% of homes counted as overcrowded. Those figures describe the neighbourhood. They do not explain the crime rate in either direction.
Violence and sexual offences were the biggest category, at 31% of recorded crime, against 35% across England and Wales. That category covers a wide legal range, including common assault where nobody was hurt, and it is the largest almost everywhere. Here it comes in below the national share. Anti-social behaviour made up 15%, close to the national 16%. Public order offences were 10% against 7% nationally, and criminal damage and arson 9% against 7%. Other theft was 8% against 7%, and shoplifting 7% against 8%. The categories where Ashford Common runs ahead of the country are the noisy ones, and none of them by much.
After a report, Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally. That figure covers the whole force and was not measured for Ashford Common. It answers a different question from the crime rate. Over the same twelve months, about 36% of the force's cases closed with no suspect identified, and the force ranked 30th of 42 on charging. With detection at that level, living somewhere crime is rare is a better plan than relying on getting caught criminals charged.
Safety is one of Ashford Common's real strengths. Crime is well below the borough rate and mostly the everyday kind.