Yes. Chessington is one of the calmer corners of Kingston upon Thames. Crime runs about a third below the borough. Violence makes up less of the total than it does nationally. Most of the extra reports are nuisance behaviour and car crime. Chessington spends more time annoyed than afraid.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 1,639 crimes in Chessington in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 62 per 1,000 people. That is roughly 32% below the average for Kingston upon Thames. Hook to the north and Malden Rushett at the southern tip sit inside the same count.
Kingston's own rate for the same year was about 90 per 1,000, against Chessington's 62. Whatever lifts the borough's figure, most of it happens in the rest of the borough, and Chessington pulls the average down.
Chessington is suburban, though fairly dense, at an average of about 5,700 people per square kilometre. Unemployment is about 3%, and about 6% of households are overcrowded. Those are the numbers of a settled place of family houses where people go out to work in the morning.
Violence and sexual offences make up about 29% of local reports, against about 35% across England and Wales. That category always comes first, and it covers everything from common assault without injury upwards, so a figure below the national share is the useful part. Antisocial behaviour is about 25% of reports here against 16% nationally, and vehicle crime about 10% against 5%. Criminal damage and arson (about 8% against 7%), public order (about 6% against 7%) and other theft (about 5% against 7%) all track the national pattern closely. The Metropolitan Police street-level map on police.uk shows what has been reported within a few hundred metres of a given house, and it is worth checking the road you are buying on. Chessington has less than its share of the frightening crimes and more than its share of the irritating ones.
When something is reported, the Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the same year, and it ranks 33rd of 42 forces on that measure. About 53% of the force's cases are closed with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures covering all of London, and they say nothing about how often anything happens in Chessington. They tell you what to expect if something does happen.
Safety is one of the best things about Chessington: the crime rate is well below the borough average, and most of what does happen is the nuisance kind.