Caddington is a safe place to live, with less crime than the rest of Central Bedfordshire. It comes in about an eighth below the county average. The village is mostly people in work with room in their houses. Vehicle crime turns up more often than you'd expect. The bigger worry is what happens after you report something.
Bedfordshire Police recorded 313 crimes in Caddington in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 56 crimes per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 13% below the average for Central Bedfordshire.
The authority-wide rate over the same year was about 65 per 1,000. Caddington's 56 is lower, by a clear but modest margin, and the gap is the size a run of incidents in one year could narrow or widen. It puts the village on the safer side of a county that is not dangerous to begin with.
The village has about 2,650 people per square kilometre, which is fairly built-up for somewhere still called a village. Unemployment is about 2% and overcrowding about 2%. These numbers describe the place without explaining its crime rate, and Caddington runs on people in work with space at home, which is about as unpromising as material gets for a police report.
The crime mix comes with a warning. The totals are small enough that a handful of incidents moves any share by several points, so these shares belong to one year and shouldn't be read as permanent features of the village. Violence and sexual offences made up about 36% of recorded crime, against about 35% nationally, which is almost exactly the national pattern for a broad legal category that includes common assault without injury. Vehicle crime stands out at about 15%, against about 5% nationally. Anti-social behaviour was about 14% (16% nationally), criminal damage and arson about 9% (7%), public order about 6% (7%) and other theft about 5% (7%). If the vehicle figure holds up in later years, it suggests thieves have noticed what everyone who lives here already knows: in Caddington, the valuable thing is usually parked on the drive. A lockable driveway or a garage that is used for the car, a rarer sight than the house plans suggest, is worth asking about on a viewing.
Bedfordshire Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the year from June 2025 to May 2026. That is a force-wide figure, covering everything from Luton to the smallest villages, and it says nothing about this street or any other. About 38% of the force's cases closed in that period with no suspect identified. On charging, Bedfordshire Police ranks 36th of 42 forces in England and Wales, and no choice of street in Caddington changes that.
Caddington is one of the safer corners of Central Bedfordshire. The only place where the numbers look worse is what the county's police manage to do once a crime has been reported.