Yes, and noticeably safer than the district around it. Crime runs well under the Mole Valley rate. Unemployment barely registers. Almost nobody lives in cramped housing. In Capel, the crime reports are shorter than the planning ones.
In the year to May 2026, Capel's published crime rate was about 41 per 1,000 residents, roughly 39% below the Mole Valley average. That covers 146 recorded crimes over the twelve months from June 2025. For a village with a main road running past it, that is a quiet year's worth of police attention.
For comparison, the Mole Valley rate over the same period was about 67 per 1,000. Mole Valley is hardly a crime hotspot to begin with, and Capel sits well below even that.
The neighbourhood behind those numbers is spread out and settled. Population density averages about 1,475 people per square kilometre, unemployment is about 3%, and about 4% of households are overcrowded. None of that explains a crime rate on its own, but it describes a place where most people have room and a job.
The mix of recorded crime comes with a warning: Capel's totals are small enough that a handful of incidents can move any category by several points, so these shares describe one year, not the village's permanent character. Violence and sexual offences make up about 36% of recorded crime, against about 35% nationally, which is essentially the national pattern. That category is the largest almost everywhere and includes common assault without injury. Anti-social behaviour is the one that stands out, at about 30% locally against 16% nationally. Vehicle crime runs at about 7% against 5%, while other theft, criminal damage and arson, and public order offences all sit within a point of their national shares.
What happens after a report is a separate question, answered at force level. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 30th of 42 forces over the year to May 2026. About 36% of cases are closed with no suspect identified. These are force-wide figures covering the whole county, not a measure of Capel itself, and they say nothing about how likely a crime is here in the first place. They tell you how much to expect once something has already happened.
Safety is one of Capel's real strengths: crime runs well below a district that is already low, and what does get recorded is too small in number to amount to a pattern.