Yes. Caversham is one of the calmer corners of Reading. Crime runs well below the borough average. Violence sits at about the national norm. The one crime that stands out is shoplifting. Lock the car and leave the paranoia on the other side of the bridge.
Police.uk records put Caversham's crime rate at about 50 per 1,000 residents in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, about 57% below the Reading average. That covers 1,825 recorded crimes over the twelve months. Both are published figures, and the rate is calculated on its own population base, so don't try to recreate it from a headcount.
Across Reading as a whole, the rate over the same year was about 116 per 1,000. Caversham's is about 50. That's the difference between a town-centre borough and the residential side of the river, and anyone who moves here expecting Reading's figures will find their own street quieter than they feared.
For a suburb, Caversham is fairly dense, at about 4,900 people per square kilometre on average. Unemployment is about 3%, and about 3% of households are overcrowded. It's a settled area of owners and houses, not a place under strain.
Most of the mix is ordinary. Violence and sexual offences make up about 34% of recorded crime, against 35% nationally. That category is the biggest almost everywhere and includes common assault without injury, so the number sounds worse than the reality. Shoplifting is the outlier at 18%, against 8% nationally. Anti-social behaviour is lower than usual at 10%, against 16% nationally. Other theft is 9% against 7%, criminal damage and arson 7% against 7%, and public order 6% against 7%. Caversham's crime is mostly about goods leaving shops without being paid for, not about people.
After a crime is reported, the numbers are less comforting, and they belong to the police force, not to Caversham. 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 its cases close with no suspect identified. That doesn't make Caversham less safe. It does mean that if your bike goes missing, you shouldn't expect it back.
Safety is one of Caversham's real strengths. It has low crime, a lower share of anti-social behaviour than the national average, and not much for a buyer to lose sleep over.