Yes, Chalgrove is a safe village, and its crime rate is a little below the rest of its district. The police log for a full year is short. Unemployment is close to zero and overcrowding is rare. The breakdown by type of crime looks less comfortable, but with numbers this small it can swing a long way from one year to the next.
Thames Valley Police recorded 127 crimes in and around Chalgrove in the year from June 2025 to May 2026. The published rate is about 45 crimes per 1,000 residents, roughly 8% below the South Oxfordshire average.
That district average is about 49 per 1,000, so the two figures are close, with Chalgrove slightly lower. South Oxfordshire as a whole is not a high-crime district, so beating its average by a few points puts Chalgrove at the calmer end of an already calm part of the county.
Chalgrove's built-up area averages about 3,500 people per square kilometre, unemployment is about 1% and about 2% of homes are overcrowded. That describes a compact village of family houses where nearly every adult who wants a job has one. None of these figures explains crime levels on its own. They simply describe the kind of place the crime figures come from.
By type, violence and sexual offences made up about 61% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally. That category covers a wide legal range, down to common assault with no injury, and it is the biggest category almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour was about 9%, against 16% nationally. Public order offences were about 8% (7% nationally), other crime about 6% (2%), criminal damage and arson about 5% (7%), and other theft about 3% (7%). With 127 crimes in the whole year, a handful of incidents can move any of these shares by several points. The mix shows what happened in one year in a small village, not a fixed feature of the place. If one street worries you, check the police's own street-level crime map for the past few months, which is more useful than any village-wide percentage.
Thames Valley Police, which covers Chalgrove, charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally. That ranks it 37th of 42 forces. About 37% of its cases are closed without a suspect being identified. Those are force-wide figures covering a large area, and they say nothing about how safe Chalgrove itself is. They only tell you what to expect from the police after a crime has been reported.
Safety is one of the things Chalgrove does well. Crime is low, it is slightly lower than the rest of the district, and the numbers are too small for one bad year to change that.