Yes, Ewhurst is a safe place to live. Recorded crime runs well under half the rate of many places nearby and far below the rest of Waverley. Unemployment barely registers. Overcrowding barely exists. Most of the worry here is about who gets planning permission, not who gets burgled.
Police recorded 111 crimes in and around Ewhurst in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 26 per 1,000 residents. That sits roughly 44% below the Waverley average. For a village of this size, it's a low figure without being a suspicious one.
To put the two side by side: Ewhurst's rate is about 26 crimes per 1,000 residents, and Waverley's as a whole is about 46. Waverley isn't a rough borough to begin with, so beating its average by that margin says something.
The neighbourhood behind those numbers is spread out and comfortable. The average density across the area is about 828 people per square kilometre, unemployment is about 1% and overcrowding affects about 1% of households. That's the texture of a village of big houses on big plots with most of the adults either working or retired. None of those figures explains the crime rate on its own, but they describe the kind of place producing it.
The mix of crimes needs handling with care, because the totals are small enough that a few incidents move any share by several points. Violence and sexual offences made up about 38% of recorded crime against about 35% nationally, close to the national pattern, and that heading covers a wide statutory range including common assault without injury. Anti-social behaviour accounted for about 18% against 16% nationally. Burglary stands out on paper at about 11% against 4% nationally, followed by public order at about 10% against 7%, criminal damage and arson at about 9% against 7%, and vehicle crime at about 6% against 5%. On a base this small, the burglary share is a reason to check the locks and the lighting on a detached house with no neighbours in sight, not a verdict on the village. Next year's handful of incidents could tell a different story.
What happens after a crime is reported is a separate question from how often it happens. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, and about 36% of cases are closed with no suspect identified, in the year to May 2026. Those are force-wide figures covering the whole county, not a measure of Ewhurst itself. They say how the system performs once something goes wrong. The crime rate says how rarely anything does.
Safety is one of Ewhurst's real strengths. The lanes are dark at night, and it's the badgers doing most of the prowling.