Datchet is about as safe as the rest of its borough, slightly worse on paper. Its crime rate runs a little above the local average. Violence makes up a smaller share than it does nationally. Car crime makes up a bigger one. This is an ordinary level of crime for a commuter village, with the cars on the drive doing more than their fair share of the attracting.
Across the Datchet area, Thames Valley Police recorded 783 crimes in the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 73 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 6% above the average for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
The borough's own rate for the same year is about 69 per 1,000, so the gap is four crimes per thousand people. In a village this size that gap is a handful of incidents, the kind of difference a single busy month can make or erase.
The setting is a fairly dense commuter village with few of the pressures that usually push crime numbers up. The Datchet area averages about 2,070 people per square kilometre, unemployment is about 3% and about 4% of households are overcrowded. Those are descriptions of the neighbourhood, and none of them on its own explains a crime rate.
The mix matters more than the total. Violence and sexual offences, a broad legal grouping that includes common assault where nobody is hurt, are the largest category here at about 33% of recorded crime, against about 35% across England and Wales, so Datchet is close to the national pattern and slightly under it. Anti-social behaviour is about 19% here against 16% nationally. Criminal damage and arson is about 10% against 7%, public order about 10% against 7%, and other theft about 8% against 7%. The outlier is vehicle crime, at about 10% of the local total against 5% nationally. The village spends its days driving to work and its nights leaving the means of doing so parked on the street. Look up the exact street on the police's public crime map, which plots incidents to an approximate location, and see whether the car crime clusters near anywhere you would park.
Then the question of what happens once something is reported. Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the same year, which puts it 37th of 42 forces. About 37% of its cases are closed with no suspect identified at all. That is a force-wide record covering the whole of the Thames Valley, and it says how the police perform after a crime, with nothing to say about how likely one is to happen in Datchet. Thirty-seventh is a league position nobody puts on a scarf.
Datchet is middling for safety, an ordinary village with ordinary numbers, whose one distinctive problem is the share of crime aimed at its cars.