Yes, Cuxton is safe, and it sits inside Medway looking faintly surprised about it. Crime runs at about half the Medway rate. The yearly total is a few hundred reports. Hardly anyone is out of work. The dull answer here is also the correct one.
Police records for the year to May 2026 put Cuxton's crime rate at about 52 per 1,000 residents, roughly 52% below the Medway average. That covers 274 recorded crimes across June 2025 to May 2026. Both are published figures from police.uk, and the rate is calculated on the statistical area's own population base rather than a simple head count of the village.
For the comparison in plain numbers: Medway as a whole runs at about 108 crimes per 1,000 residents, against about 52 in Cuxton. The same council, the same police force, and a crime rate half the size. People who assume "Medway" means one thing across the whole district are pricing in a reputation that doesn't reach this far up the river.
The setting helps explain what kind of place produces these numbers. Population density averages about 1,830 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 2% and overcrowding at about 1%. That describes a settled residential village with room to breathe. None of it proves why crime is low. It describes the kind of street where a strange van gets noticed before the driver has found the handbrake.
The crime mix needs handling with care, because the base is small enough that a few incidents shift a share by several points. Violence and sexual offences, a broad statutory category that includes common assault without injury, made up about 32% of the total against about 35% nationally, so a little under the norm. Anti-social behaviour was about 18% against 16% nationally, and shoplifting about 10% against 8%, both close to the national picture. Criminal damage and arson came to about 8% against 7%, and other theft about 6% against 7%. The one share that stands apart is drugs, about 12% against about 4% nationally. On a total this small, that can come from a handful of recorded offences, and it shouldn't be read as a settled feature of the village. Treat it as a question to put to the local policing team, not a verdict.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how much crime there is. Kent Police, the force covering Cuxton, charges a suspect in about 16% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which places it 6th of 42 forces over the year to May 2026. That is a force-wide figure, not Cuxton's own. The other side of it is that about 36% of the force's cases closed with no suspect identified. If the question is "will they catch whoever did it", the force answers better than most, and still not often enough to rely on it.
Safety is one of Cuxton's real strengths. The village carries about half the crime of the district around it, and the only figure worth a second look is resting on a base too small to carry much weight.