Felsted is a safe village, and calmer than the district around it, which is itself hardly a hotbed. Crime runs about a third below the local average. Unemployment and overcrowding barely register. What does get reported is small enough in number that a single bad month changes the shape of it. The biggest risk to a Felsted resident's peace is mostly to their car.
Police records for the year to May 2026 put Felsted's crime rate at about 42 per 1,000 people, roughly 31% below the Uttlesford average. That came from 163 recorded crimes over the twelve months, across a village with a boarding school, a cluster of hamlets and a lot of lanes.
Uttlesford as a whole runs at about 62 crimes per 1,000 people over the same year. Uttlesford is a rural district of market towns and villages, so Felsted is beating an average that was already gentle. The gap between 42 and 62 is the difference between a village and the towns it shops in.
Felsted's statistical areas average about 582 people per square kilometre, unemployment is about 1% and about 1% of households are overcrowded. That describes a place with room around most houses and most adults either in work or retired. None of it explains the crime figure, but it does describe what kind of village produces it.
Of the 163 crimes, violence and sexual offences made up about 32%, against about 35% across England and Wales, a category so broad it covers common assault without injury and leads almost everywhere. Vehicle crime was about 14% against 5% nationally, criminal damage and arson about 14% against 7%, anti-social behaviour about 12% against 16%, other theft about 12% against 7%, and public order offences about 7%, in line with the national 7%. On a base this small, a handful of incidents moves any of those shares by several points, so a run of break-ins on one lane can make Felsted look like a vehicle-crime hotspot for a year and then quietly stop. The national police crime map for the specific street, month by month, is the check that sorts a pattern from a bad spell.
The most dramatic name in Felsted's records still belongs to the Domesday Book, which notes that King William handed part of the manor in 1086 to a man called Roger God-save-the-ladies. The parish has been short on villains ever since.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and it is answered at force level. Essex Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which places it 28th of 42 forces in England and Wales over the year to May 2026. About 37% of its cases close with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide numbers covering everything from Southend to the Uttlesford villages, and they say nothing about whether Felsted itself is safe, only about the odds of anyone being caught if something happens.
Safety is one of the things Felsted does best. Crime here is low even by the standards of a quiet district, and what there is mostly happens to property.