Bordon records a lot more crime than the rest of its district. The rate runs about three-quarters above the East Hampshire average. The mix of crimes looks much like anywhere else in the country. Fewer cases end in a charge than the national norm. The surrounding villages are quiet, and the town has to be judged by its own numbers.
Police records for June 2025 to May 2026 show 964 crimes in Bordon, a published rate of about 85 per 1,000 residents. That puts it roughly 76% above the East Hampshire average. There is no polite way to frame that figure, and estate agents will try anyway, usually by changing the subject to the forest.
The district rate over the same year was about 48 per 1,000, so the two figures sit side by side at about 85 for Bordon against about 48 for East Hampshire. Part of the reason is that the district average includes a lot of countryside, and averages across fields tend to look calm. That context explains the gap without making it smaller. Bordon is compared with its neighbours because those are the places a buyer is choosing between.
Bordon is a town among villages. It averages about 4,130 people per square kilometre, which is a proper built-up density, and more people living closer together tends to mean more of everything that gets recorded. Unemployment is about 3% and overcrowding about 3%, both low. Those figures describe a working town with room to live, not a place in trouble, and neither explains the crime rate on its own.
The mix is closer to normal than the headline rate suggests. Violence and sexual offences make up about 40% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally. That category is a broad legal grouping, and it includes common assault without injury, so it sounds worse than much of what it covers. Anti-social behaviour accounts for about 16%, level with the national share of 16%. Shoplifting is about 9% against 8% nationally, and public order offences about 7%, level with the national 7%. Other theft sits at about 6% against 7%, and criminal damage and arson at about 5% against 7%, both slightly below the national shares. So Bordon doesn't have an unusual kind of crime. It has more of the usual kind, with violence running a few points higher than the national share.
What happens after a report is a force-wide question, not a Bordon one. Hampshire Constabulary charged a suspect in about 9% of cases over the same year, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 38th of 42 forces. About 35% of cases closed with no suspect identified. None of that measures how safe the streets are. It answers a different question, which is how likely a reported crime is to end with someone in court, and in Hampshire that likelihood is below average.
Safety is Bordon's poorest showing. The crime rate is well above the district's, and buyers who put it high on their list should compare individual streets before they commit to one.