Yes, about as safe as the rest of its district and no safer. Crime runs level with the Horsham average. Hardly anyone is out of work. Nobody's crammed in. Billingshurst's crime figures would struggle to fill a single episode of a true-crime podcast.
Police records show 721 crimes in the Billingshurst area in the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 58 crimes per 1,000 residents. That puts it roughly level with the local-authority average. For a place this size it's an ordinary number, and ordinary is what most buyers are hoping to hear when they ask the question.
The Horsham district as a whole ran at about 57 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same year. Billingshurst's 58 against the district's 57 is a difference too small to plan a move around. Anyone quoting the one-point gap as a reason to buy elsewhere is reading the spreadsheet harder than it deserves.
The neighbourhood behind those numbers is settled rather than stretched. The built-up area averages about 3,430 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 2% and about 2% of households are overcrowded. None of that explains the crime rate one way or the other. It describes a place where most people have a job, a room each and a front door they chose.
By type, violence and sexual offences make up about 33% of recorded crime here, slightly below the 35% share nationally. That category is the biggest almost everywhere and covers a wide statutory range, including common assault where nobody is hurt, so on its own it sounds worse than it is. Anti-social behaviour takes about 20% against 16% nationally, and public order offences about 10% against 7%, the two areas where Billingshurst runs a little ahead of the country. Criminal damage and arson sit at about 9% against 7%. Other theft, at 7%, matches the national share, and shoplifting, at 6%, is below the 8% national figure. The mix leans towards nuisance rather than menace, which is the kind of crime that irritates a village more than it endangers one.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how much crime there is. Across its whole force area, Sussex Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which ranks it 35th of 42 forces over the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026. About 48% of its cases close with no suspect identified. That's a force-wide figure, not a Billingshurst one, and it says nothing about how likely you are to be a victim. It does say that if the shed does get broken into, the realistic hope is the insurance, not an arrest.
Billingshurst sits in the middle on safety: no worse than its district, no better, and short on anything that should keep a buyer awake. It's an average record in a comfortable place, and the people who worry most about it tend to be reading the figures without the national share beside them.