Yes, and comfortably so by Buckinghamshire's standards. Crime runs about a third below the county's rate. Unemployment barely registers. Violence makes up the same share of crime as it does everywhere else. The one crime that stands out here is the one parked on the drive.
Thames Valley Police recorded 677 crimes in Chalfont St Peter in the year from June 2025 to May 2026. The published rate for the area is about 45 crimes per 1,000 residents, roughly a third below the Buckinghamshire average. A full twelve months is long enough that one bad month cannot drag the figure around.
Across the whole of Buckinghamshire the rate is about 65 per 1,000, so the comparison is 45 here against 65 for the county as a whole. Buckinghamshire runs from market towns to the bigger urban centres, and the county average carries all of them. The village sits well beneath it.
The village is built up for somewhere still calling itself a village, at about 3,030 residents per square kilometre on average across its neighbourhoods. About 2% of working-age residents were unemployed at the 2021 census, and about 2% of households were overcrowded. Those figures describe a settled, well-off suburb.
Violence and sexual offences make up about 36% of recorded crime, against about 35% across England and Wales. That category is the largest almost everywhere and includes common assault without injury, so here it is simply the national pattern. Vehicle crime is the real outlier, at about 14% of the local total against 5% nationally. Anti-social behaviour runs lower than the national share, at about 12% against 16%. Other theft is about 9% against 7%, criminal damage and arson about 9% against 7%, and public order about 7%, level with the national share. For a buyer, the street-level crime map on the police's own website and a garage that actually holds the car are worth more than any alarm sticker. The village has few vandals and plenty of people interested in what is parked outside.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and it is answered for the whole force. Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which ranks it 37th of 42 forces in England and Wales. About 37% of its cases are closed with no suspect identified. Those figures describe a force covering three counties, so they say nothing about how safe this village is. They do tell you that a stolen car from the drive is more likely to be an insurance claim than a court case.
Chalfont St Peter is one of the safer places in the county to live. The main risk is to the car, and the people are left largely alone.