Yes, and by the numbers rather than by reputation. Chandler's Ford records about 45 crimes per thousand residents a year, which sits roughly a third below the average for the wider Eastleigh area. That is a genuine gap, not a decimal-point quibble. This is one of those suburbs where the safety question mostly answers itself in the buyer's favour. The only real work is explaining why the answer holds up.
The published crime rate of about 45 per thousand is the figure to hang onto, because it is already adjusted for how many people live here and can be compared against other places on the same basis. Set against the Eastleigh average of nearer 67 per thousand, Chandler's Ford is comfortably the quieter half of the borough. In raw volume, the town logged roughly 1,800 offences over the past year, which sounds like a lot until you remember it is spread across a town of this size and a full twelve months. The mistake people make is opening the police crime map, seeing pins scattered across their prospective street, and panicking. Every inhabited place on that map has pins, because pins are how the map works. The number that tells you anything is the rate, and here the rate is low and lower than its neighbours. There is no single notorious strip dragging the figure around, no one street doing all the damage, just a settled residential town behaving like a settled residential town.
The blunt verdict is that Chandler's Ford is about as safe as an ordinary English suburb gets, and the crime data is the single strongest thing the place has going for it. If personal safety is near the top of your list, this town clears the bar and then keeps going. Buy here for many reasons or none, but do not lie awake over the crime rate. It is not the problem.