Yes, and by a wide margin. The police recorded around 138 crimes across the parish over the twelve-month window from April 2025 to March 2026. That sits against a resident population of roughly 2,700. The published rate is about 47 incidents per thousand a year, against a Chichester local-authority figure closer to 81. The parish comes in around 43 per cent below the district average, and the gap is large enough that small revisions in either direction do not change the picture.
The volume itself is small. That number averages out to fewer than three recorded crimes a week, which on a parish of around 2,700 residents is genuinely quiet by any urban comparator. The Chichester local-authority area, with a population of around 124,000, is the comparator used for the per-thousand rate, and Bosham sits well below it on the published figure. One caveat worth naming: parishes this small can move several places on a national ranking from a handful of incidents in any direction, so the right way to read the figure is as a long-run signal of the place, not a guarantee of any given week. No street-level claim about which corner is the rough corner or which lane is the quiet one holds up at this geography. Any answer that offers one is inventing it.
The structural reading is straightforward. Bosham's demographic profile is exactly the kind that does not generate volume crime. Around seven in ten households own their home outright or with a mortgage. The median resident age is 53. The deprivation profile sits in the highest deciles for the country, with an Index of Multiple Deprivation decile of around nine on the latest publication. About one in three households is a single person, and one in five is a single pensioner. A high-ownership, late-career, low-deprivation village on the end of a quiet harbour peninsula is the demographic shape of a low-crime area, and the police register agrees. None of this is a moral observation about the residents. It is a structural observation about who lives where, and what those places tend to look like on the police map.
Bosham scores at the top of the safety scale, and the geography and demographics agree with the score. It is one of the calmer parishes the police record across the wider south coast, and the figures are reading the place as it actually behaves, not as anyone might wish it to.