Yes, Cookham is a safe place to live. Crime runs well under the rate for its borough. Hardly anyone is out of work. Hardly anyone lives in an overcrowded home. The biggest power struggle on record is still the one between Mercia and Wessex, and the village has been calmer since.
Thames Valley Police recorded 317 crimes in Cookham in the year from June 2025 to May 2026. The published rate is about 38 crimes per 1,000 residents, about 44% below the average for Windsor and Maidenhead. The published rate uses its own population base, so it won't match a simple count divided by the village's head count.
The borough-wide rate over the same year was about 69 crimes per 1,000 residents, against Cookham's 38. Windsor and Maidenhead includes town centres, railway stations and the nightlife that goes with them, and Cookham sees very little of that in its own figures.
Cookham averages about 1,800 people per square kilometre. Unemployment is about 2% and about 2% of households are overcrowded. None of that explains the crime rate by itself, but it shows what kind of neighbourhood produces these numbers: settled, employed and well housed. This is a village where the main shortage is space for another mooring above Cookham Bridge.
Over the same year, the largest category was violence and sexual offences at about 30%, below the national share of about 35%. That category is a broad legal grouping that includes common assault without injury, and it is the biggest category almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour made up about 16%, the same as the national share. Other theft, at about 11% against 7% nationally, and public order, at about 10% against 7%, ran above the national mix. So did vehicle crime, at about 8% against 5%, and criminal damage and arson, at about 8% against 7%. With only 317 crimes in the year, a handful of incidents can move any of these shares by several points. One determined thief in one summer could be the whole explanation for the theft figure.
Once a crime is reported, Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, and ranks 37th of 42 forces in England and Wales on that measure. About 37% of its cases close with no suspect identified. These are figures for the whole force area, decided across the whole Thames Valley, so they say nothing about Cookham's streets in particular. They describe what happens after a crime, which is a separate question from how often crime happens. In Cookham the chance of being a victim is low, and so is the chance of seeing someone charged afterwards, and the village can only take credit for the first of those.
Cookham is a very safe place to live: crime is well below the borough's rate, and nothing in the mix should worry a buyer.