Yes, and safer than the borough around it. Crime runs below the Rushmoor average. Unemployment is low. Anti-social behaviour turns up less often than it does nationally. Not spotless, but quieter than its neighbours.
Police records for the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026 put Farnborough's crime rate at 72 per 1,000 residents, about 12% below the Rushmoor average. That's 4,875 recorded crimes over the year in a town of this size. It is a published rate for the area's statistical boundaries, so the count and the rate aren't meant to be divided into each other at the kitchen table. The rate is the one to compare.
Side by side, the gap is clearer. Farnborough sits at about 72 crimes per 1,000 residents, and Rushmoor as a whole at about 82. In safety terms the town is the calmer half of the borough, and a buyer moving across the border within Rushmoor will notice the difference on paper, if not always on the walk home.
For context, the average neighbourhood here holds about 5,000 people per square kilometre, which makes this a proper built-up suburb, not a village. Unemployment was about 3% at the 2021 census and about 5% of households were overcrowded. That's a working, housed, fairly comfortable town. None of those figures explains the crime numbers on its own, but they describe the kind of streets that produce them.
The mix of crime is where the headline needs reading carefully. Violence and sexual offences make up about 41% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally. That category is the largest almost everywhere and covers a wide legal range, down to common assault with no injury, so the share runs somewhat above the national norm rather than off the charts. Anti-social behaviour is the other way round, at about 11% against 16% nationally, which is the kind of low-level nuisance residents notice most, and here they notice it less. Shoplifting is about 10% against 8%, and public order offences about 8% against 7%. Other theft sits at about 7%, level with the national share, and vehicle crime at about 6% against 5%. Most of that is close to the national pattern. It reads like a town with shops and a Saturday night, which is what Farnborough is.
What happens after you report something is a separate question, and here the answer is less flattering. Charging decisions are made across the whole force, so this is Hampshire Constabulary's figure, not Farnborough's own. The force charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 38th of 42 forces. About 35% of cases are closed with no suspect identified at all. None of that makes the town less safe. It does mean that if your bike goes, the police report is mostly for the insurers.
Farnborough is one of the safer parts of its borough, and the everyday nuisance is lower than the national norm. What lets the picture down is the force's record once a crime is reported, not the streets themselves.