Aylesbury is less safe than the rest of Buckinghamshire, with about 94 recorded crimes for every 1,000 people. That puts it well above the county's own rate. Violence makes up a bigger slice than it does nationally. So does shoplifting. The county's calm tends to stop somewhere around the ring road.
Thames Valley Police recorded 8,681 crimes in Aylesbury in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 94 per 1,000 residents and roughly 44% above the Buckinghamshire average. The town's best-known fight is still the Battle of Aylesbury in 1642, which the Parliamentarians won, and nobody has been keeping score of the modern ones with quite the same pride.
Across Buckinghamshire as a whole, the rate over the same twelve months was about 65 per 1,000. The county figure is pulled down by villages and commuter towns, and Aylesbury is where Buckinghamshire keeps its main shopping streets, its bus station and its Crown Court. The court at least saves everyone a journey.
Aylesbury's neighbourhoods average about 5,900 people per square kilometre, unemployment is about 3% and about 5% of homes are overcrowded. That describes a busy, working town with jobs and mostly enough room at home. None of those figures explains the crime rate, and none of them is offered here as the reason for it.
Violence and sexual offences make up 41% of recorded crime in Aylesbury against 35% across England and Wales, a broad legal category that runs from serious assault down to common assault without injury. Shoplifting is 11% here against 8% nationally, and other theft is 8% against 7%. Public order offences are close to the national share, at 8% against 7%, and criminal damage and arson are slightly below it, at 6% against 7%. Anti-social behaviour is the outlier in the other direction, at 10% here against 16% nationally. The town complains less about the neighbours than most of the country does, and has more cause to watch its shopping bags. The street-level crime map for the exact road, read across a full year, is worth checking, because a town-wide rate this high is built from some streets much more than others.
What happens after a report is a separate question, decided across the whole force. Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which places it 37th of 42 forces in England and Wales. About 37% of its cases are closed with no suspect identified. That figure describes the force from one end of its patch to the other, and says nothing about how likely a crime is in Aylesbury in the first place.
Safety is where Aylesbury falls well short, and the crime rate is the one figure here that should change how a buyer picks a street.