Yes, Berrylands is safer than the borough around it. Crime runs well under the Kingston upon Thames rate. Violence makes up a smaller share than it does nationally. The local trouble falls more heavily on cars and nuisance. Most people here are left alone, and their cars come off worse.
Police.uk recorded 2,337 crimes in Berrylands in the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026. That gives a published rate of about 75 crimes per 1,000 residents, roughly 17% below the Kingston upon Thames average. Neither figure is something you can recalculate yourself from the resident population, because the published rate is built on a different population base.
Across Kingston upon Thames as a whole, the rate for the same year was about 90 per 1,000. Set the two side by side and Berrylands comes in clearly lower. Whatever lifts the borough's figure, less of it happens on these 1930s streets.
For context, about 7,200 people live in each square kilometre of Berrylands on average. That is dense for somewhere this suburban, and it comes from the flats mixed in among the semis. Unemployment is about 3%, and about 5% of households are overcrowded. All of that describes the neighbourhood. None of it explains the crime figures on its own.
Violence and sexual offences are the largest category, at about 32% of recorded crime here against about 35% across England and Wales. That category covers everything from serious assault to common assault with no injury. It is the biggest category almost everywhere, and Berrylands' share is below the national one. The categories above the national share are anti-social behaviour, about 22% here against 16% nationally, and vehicle crime, about 11% against 5%. Criminal damage and arson are about 6% against 7%, other theft about 5% against 7%, and public order offences about 5% against 7%. So Berrylands has more nuisance and more cars broken into or stolen, and slightly less of almost everything else. Police.uk maps crime street by street, so look up the specific road for the past year to see where these incidents actually happen.
What happens after a crime is reported is a separate question, and the answer is set for the whole of London. The Metropolitan Police Service charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally. That puts it 33rd of 42 forces. In about 53% of its cases nobody is identified at all. Those are force-wide outcomes covering every London borough, and they say nothing about how often crime happens in Berrylands. A Berrylands buyer simply takes the force that comes with the postcode.
Safety is one of Berrylands' strong points, with crime clearly below the borough's rate. Keep anything valuable out of sight in the car.