Yes, Bray is a safe place to live. Crime runs about a third below the rest of the borough. The whole neighbourhood records a few dozen crimes a year. Hardly anyone is out of work and hardly any homes are overcrowded. Most of the people driving into Bray after dark have a restaurant booking.
Thames Valley Police recorded 76 crimes in Bray's neighbourhood in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 47 per 1,000 residents. That rate is roughly 31% below the Windsor and Maidenhead average. With so few crimes in total, one bad month can shift the annual rate noticeably, so a full year is the minimum worth looking at. For any particular street, the police's own online crime map shows what has been reported nearby.
Over the same year the borough as a whole ran at about 69 crimes per 1,000 residents, against Bray's 47. Bray is counted in the Windsor and Maidenhead totals but accounts for very little of the borough's crime.
The average density across Bray's postcodes is about 728 residents per square kilometre. Unemployment is about 4%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. That describes a spread-out place where most people have work and room to live. None of these figures causes crime. They show what sort of neighbourhood produces a low rate.
The charge rate is a separate question from how much crime there is, and it covers the whole force. Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 37th of 42 forces. About 37% of the force's cases close with no suspect identified. That is a figure for the force as a whole, from the year to May 2026, and nothing in it is specific to Bray. It tells you how likely a charge is after a crime. The crime rate tells you how likely the crime is in the first place, and for deciding where to live that is the number that counts.
Safety is one of Bray's strongest points, with a crime rate well below the borough's. Of all the things to check before buying here, crime is the one least likely to cause a problem.