Yes, and comfortably so. Crime runs at well under half the borough's rate. Hardly anyone is out of work. Nobody is packed in. Safety here is the default setting.
Police recorded 289 crimes in East Horsley in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, which gives a published rate of about 34 crimes per 1,000 residents. That's roughly 61% below the average for the Guildford local authority area. For a village this size, a year's figures are small enough that a single bad month shows up in them, but no single month could close a gap that wide.
Across Guildford as a whole, the published rate for the same period is about 87 crimes per 1,000 residents, against about 34 for East Horsley. Guildford isn't a rough borough by most standards. East Horsley just sits at its very quiet end.
The village's makeup fits those numbers. Population density averages about 1,018 people per square kilometre, unemployment is about 2%, and only about 1% of households are overcrowded. That's the texture of the place rather than an explanation for the crime rate: big plots, settled households and very few people with time on their hands and nowhere to spend it.
The category mix needs a health warning before any numbers. The totals are low enough that a handful of incidents moves any share by several points, so none of this is a settled feature of the village. Violence and sexual offences make up about 35% of recorded crime, the same as the national share of about 35%. That category is the largest almost everywhere, and it covers everything from serious assault to common assault without injury. Anti-social behaviour accounts for about 21% here against 16% nationally, other theft about 10% against 7%, criminal damage and arson about 9% against 7%, and public order about 5% against 7%. Burglary is the one to notice: about 8% of local crime against about 4% nationally. A village of large, detached, often empty-by-day houses is the kind of place a burglar reads as an invitation, so a decent alarm and an honest conversation with the insurer are sensible, even if the overall numbers are reassuring. The small base means that share could look different next year.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and it's answered at force level, not village level. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 30th of 42 forces. About 36% of its cases are closed with no suspect identified. None of that measures how safe East Horsley is. It measures how likely a reported crime is to end with someone in court, and across the force the answer is usually no. The low crime rate is the good news. The charge rate is the small print.
Safety is one of East Horsley's real strengths. Crime is rare, the risks are the ordinary ones for a village of big houses, and a sensible lock does more for most buyers than any worry about the neighbours.