Bagshot is less safe than its borough. Recorded crime runs well above the Surrey Heath average. The excess leans towards nuisance and theft, not violence. Unemployment is low and crowded homes are rare. The village looks quieter than its crime figures.
On police.uk figures for the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026, Bagshot recorded 548 crimes, a published rate of about 90 per 1,000 residents. That's roughly 44% above the average for Surrey Heath. The rate is calculated on a statistical population that doesn't match the village's headcount exactly, so the count and the rate should each be read as published rather than checked against each other.
The borough rate is about 63 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same period. So the two numbers side by side are about 90 for Bagshot and about 63 for Surrey Heath as a whole. The gap is real, and a buyer comparing villages across the borough will notice it before the estate agent brings it up.
The neighbourhood producing those numbers is not a rough one. Bagshot averages about 2,970 people per square kilometre, which makes it denser than the word "village" suggests. Unemployment is 2% and 3% of households are overcrowded. None of that explains the crime rate, and none of it should be read as a cause. It describes a settled, working, mostly uncrowded place that still records more crime than its neighbours.
The mix is where the reassurance sits. Violence and sexual offences, the broad legal category that includes common assault without injury and tops the list almost everywhere, makes up 32% of Bagshot's recorded crime against 35% nationally, so it's slightly below the national share. The categories that run hotter are the lower-level ones: antisocial behaviour is 21% here against 16% nationally, other theft 11% against 7%, and public order offences 10% against 7%. Shoplifting at 8% and criminal damage and arson at 7% are both close to the national shares. So Bagshot's extra crime is mostly the kind that gets reported on the village social media page rather than the kind that ends up on the evening news.
Reporting a crime and getting a charge are two different things. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 30th out of 42 forces. That's a force-wide figure, not Bagshot's own, and it says nothing about how safe the streets are. It answers a different question: what happens after the call. The honest answer to "will they catch them" is that about 36% of the force's cases are closed with no suspect identified. For a stolen bike or a smashed wing mirror, that's the outcome to expect.
Safety is one of Bagshot's weaker points, well behind the rest of the borough on the headline rate, though the extra crime is more petty than serious. Buyers who read the rate and ignore the mix will overreact, and buyers who read only the mix will underreact.