Yes, and by a clear margin rather than a nervous one. Recorded crime here runs well under the New Forest average. Three hundred and fifty-one crimes were recorded across twelve months, spread over an area of villages and lanes. Nothing in that record suggests a place where anyone thinks twice about walking back from the pub. Safe in the unexciting way, which is the only way that is any use to you.
The published neighbourhood crime figures put the area at about 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to May 2026, roughly 27% below the local authority average, on 351 recorded crimes over those twelve months. Both are published numbers rather than sums anyone should attempt at the kitchen table. The rate and the resident headcount are built on different statistical populations, so dividing one by the other produces a third number that describes nothing.
The comparison is worth seeing whole rather than as a percentage. Across the New Forest as a whole, the rate over the same twelve months was about 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents. Bransgore and the surrounding villages came in at about 42. Same force, same recording rules, same year.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would guess from the road layout. Population density across the neighbourhood areas averages about 1,400 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 1%, and about 1% of households are overcrowded. None of those figures causes anything, and none of them is offered as an explanation. They describe a settled, low-churn, low-pressure sort of place, and settled places tend to have quiet crime records for reasons no dataset will ever fully capture.
The mix of what does get recorded needs handling with care, because the totals are small enough that a handful of incidents moves a category by several points. On that basis: violence and sexual offences accounted for about 41% of recorded crime locally against about 35% nationally, which is a broad statutory grouping covering everything from serious offences down to common assault without injury and is the largest category almost everywhere. Criminal damage and arson came to about 12% against about 7% nationally, and vehicle crime about 9% against about 5%. Anti-social behaviour ran the other way at about 9% locally against about 16% nationally, and public order was about 7% in both. Across 351 crimes in 13 categories, that mix is a snapshot rather than a characteristic, and it would look different with twenty more incidents either way.
What happens after someone reports something is a separate question, and a less flattering one. Hampshire Constabulary charged a suspect in about 9% of cases over the year to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, which places the force 38th of 42. About 35% of cases closed with nobody identified at all. That is a force-wide figure covering cities as well as villages, it says nothing about any particular street here, and it should not be read as a safety measure. It answers the question of whether anyone gets caught, which is not the same question as whether anything happens to you.
Safety is the standout here. Low recorded crime, a rate well beneath the district it sits in, and a record consistent enough that it is the one thing about Bransgore nobody needs to talk their way around.