Yes. Ewell is safer than the rest of its borough. Recorded crime runs about an eighth below the borough average. Violence makes up a smaller share of offences than it does nationally. Cars and shop shelves get more attention than usual. Most of the risk here is to property, and in particular to anything with wheels or a barcode.
Police recorded 2,529 crimes in Ewell in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 75 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 12% below the average for Epsom and Ewell over the same period.
The borough rate was about 86 crimes per 1,000 residents, so Ewell sits about 11 points below its own local authority. The higher numbers in the borough come from elsewhere, and the town centres with the most going on are the obvious places to look.
Ewell is fairly dense for Surrey, at about 5,000 people per square kilometre averaged across its neighbourhoods. Unemployment is about 2%, and about 4% of households are overcrowded. Those are the figures of a comfortable, built-up suburb with few pressure points.
The mix is what makes Ewell distinctive. Violence and sexual offences, a broad legal category that includes common assault without injury, made up about 28% of recorded crime, against about 35% across England and Wales. Anti-social behaviour was 16%, level with the national 16%. Shoplifting accounted for about 12%, against 8% nationally, and vehicle crime for about 10%, against 5%. Criminal damage and arson (8% against 7%) and public order offences (7% against 7%) are close to the national shares. So the crime that does happen here leans towards property: the shops on the High Street and the cars parked outside the houses. If you are looking at a house without a driveway or garage, check where the car will spend the night.
Ewell was in the Metropolitan Police's district from 1839 until 2000, when Surrey Police took it over. 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. Those are force-wide figures that cover the whole county. They tell you what tends to happen after a crime is reported, and nothing about how likely one is to happen in Ewell.
Safety is one of Ewell's better points. Crime runs below the borough's, and what does happen here is mostly theft from cars and from shops.