Yes, Coxheath is safe, and by a clear margin. Crime runs about a quarter below the Maidstone average. Hardly anyone is out of work. Overcrowded homes are rare. The crime figures make dull reading, and dull is what you want from them.
Coxheath's published crime rate for the year from June 2025 to May 2026 was about 68 crimes per 1,000 residents, roughly 27% below the Maidstone local-authority average. That comes to 473 recorded crimes over the twelve months, across a village that mostly goes to bed on time.
The Maidstone-wide rate for the same period was about 94 per 1,000, so the comparison is 68 here against 94 across the borough. Nobody moves to Coxheath for excitement, and the crime figures agree.
The village is fairly dense for somewhere called a village, at around 3,000 people per square kilometre across its statistical areas. Unemployment sits at about 2% and overcrowding at about 3%. Those numbers describe a settled, working, reasonably roomy place. They set the scene. They don't explain the crime figures, and they shouldn't be read as doing so.
The crime mix needs handling carefully. The totals here are small, so a handful of incidents can shift any share by several points, and none of these figures should be read as a fixed trait of the village. Violence and sexual offences make up about 36% of recorded crime, against about 35% nationally. That's level with the national share, and the category is broad, covering common assault without injury, so it makes almost every place in the country look worse than it is. Anti-social behaviour is about 17% here against 16% nationally, and other theft is 7% on both counts. Criminal damage and arson runs about 11% against 7% nationally, and drugs about 6% against 4%. In a village this size, one bad month of smashed fences or one police operation can produce a gap like that. Shoplifting is lower, about 6% against 8% nationally, which says as much about how many shops there are as about anyone's honesty.
After a report, the question is what the police do with it. Kent Police charges a suspect in about 16% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which ranks it sixth of 42 forces. About 36% of its cases close with no suspect identified. These are force-wide figures covering the whole county, not Coxheath's own, and they measure what happens after a crime rather than how likely one is. Kent does better than most forces, and most reports still end with nobody charged. A good force can't change the maths of a stolen bike.
Safety is one of Coxheath's real strengths. With a rate well below the borough's, the village's main safety question is how to get the neighbours to stop parking across your drive.