Yes, in the ordinary way, which in Surrey counts as a mild disappointment. The crime rate sits almost level with the rest of the borough. Unemployment is barely there. The mix of offences looks like everywhere else's. Godalming is not the gated idyll the asking prices imply, and not a place anyone needs to worry about walking home in either.
Surrey's police recorded 856 crimes in the area in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 45 per 1,000 residents. That sits roughly 2% below the average for Waverley as a whole. In practice that is level pegging: the town behaves much like the borough around it, no better and no worse.
Put the two figures side by side and the gap nearly disappears. Godalming's rate is about 45 per 1,000; Waverley's is about 46. Buyers who arrive expecting the town to outperform its leafy neighbours on crime will find the numbers politely declining to cooperate. The comfortable parts of Surrey still have shops, pubs and a railway station, and those produce police reports wherever they are.
The neighbourhood texture is settled. There are about 2,900 people per square kilometre across the built-up area, which is a proper town rather than a scattering of villages. Unemployment is about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. This is a place with money in it, a working high street and not much hardship behind the front doors.
The mix of offences is close to the national pattern almost line by line. Violence and sexual offences make up about 37% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, a broad statutory category that includes common assault without injury and is the largest almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour accounts for about 16%, level with the national share. Public order offences sit a little higher at about 9% against 7%, as do shoplifting at about 9% against 8% and other theft at about 8% against 7%. Criminal damage and arson come in lower than the national share, at about 5% against 7%. A town-centre high street with pubs and shops will nudge the public-order and shoplifting figures up; that is the cost of having somewhere to go on a Friday night.
What happens after a report is a separate question, answered at force level rather than street level. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which places the force 30th of 42 in England and Wales. About 36% of cases across the force close with no suspect identified. That is a statement about the force's outcomes over the same twelve months, not about how safe Godalming's streets are, and the two should not be confused. It does mean the stolen bike is more likely to become an insurance claim than a court case.
Godalming's safety is middling in the most literal sense: it sits almost exactly where its borough sits, with an unremarkable mix of offences. Buy here for the river and the schools, and expect the police log to read like any other comfortable market town's.