Yes. Binfield is safe, and clearly safer than the district around it. Crime runs about a third below the Bracknell Forest average. Almost nobody is out of work. Almost nobody lives in a cramped home. What should worry you more is how rarely a crime, once reported, ends in a charge.
Binfield's published crime rate for June 2025 to May 2026 was about 45 crimes per 1,000 residents, roughly 34% below the local-authority average. That covers 483 recorded crimes over the twelve months. Both figures come from police.uk, and the rate is the published one, calculated on the population of the statistical areas the police data uses. A village this affluent is sometimes accused of having low crime only because nobody bothers reporting it. That doesn't hold up here: 483 crimes were reported, and the rate still comes in well under the district's.
Here are both numbers. Binfield records about 45 crimes per 1,000 residents, against about 68 per 1,000 across Bracknell Forest as a whole. The gap is wide enough to count. Buyers comparing homes across the district can treat it as a real difference, not a rounding error.
Binfield is a settled suburb, and that shows in the numbers. Density averages about 2,243 people per square kilometre across its statistical areas. At the 2021 census about 2% of residents were unemployed and about 2% of households were overcrowded. These figures describe what the neighbourhood is like and don't explain the crime rate on their own. Most people here have space at home and a job to go to, and most households own a car or two worth keeping locked.
The mix of crime needs care, because the numbers are small. Violence and sexual offences made up about 38% of Binfield's recorded crime, against about 35% nationally. Close to the national share, and a broad legal category that includes common assault without injury. Anti-social behaviour was about 19%, against 16% nationally. Public order and other theft were each about 9%, against about 7% for each nationally. Vehicle crime was about 8% against 5%, and criminal damage and arson about 6% against 7%. With totals this low, a handful of incidents can shift any of those shares by several points. Read them as last year's count, not a lasting character trait. Vehicle crime running a little above the national share is worth knowing in a village where the car on the drive is the most portable valuable most households own.
What happens after a crime is reported is a separate question, and the answer is less comfortable. Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the same twelve months to May 2026. That puts it 37th out of 42 forces. About 37% of cases are closed with no suspect identified. These are force-wide figures covering a large region, not Binfield's own, and they say nothing about how likely you are to be a victim here. What they do mean is that if your car is broken into, you're more likely to get a crime reference number for the insurance claim than anyone charged for it.
Binfield counts as safe by any sensible measure, and safety is one of its real strengths. Crime is well below the district's rate, and the only weak point is the force-wide odds of anyone being charged for the crime that does happen.