Mostly, though it is less safe than the rest of its borough. Recorded crime runs well above the Richmond average. Violence makes up a smaller share than it does nationally. Nuisance, shoplifting and cars make up the difference. Ham's trouble is mostly petty, but there is a fair amount of it.
The police.uk records put Ham at about 94 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to May 2026, roughly 28% above the average for Richmond upon Thames. That rate comes from 2,825 recorded crimes over the same twelve months, published against the official population figures for the statistical areas that make up the district.
Across Richmond upon Thames as a whole the published rate was about 74 per 1,000 over that year, against Ham's 94. The comparison is with one of London's more comfortable boroughs, so Ham is being measured against stiff neighbours. Twenty extra crimes per thousand people is still a real gap, though, and it is the gap a buyer will notice.
Ham is more crowded than its meadows suggest. The average density across its neighbourhoods is about 7,260 people per square kilometre. Unemployment is about 3% and about 4% of households are overcrowded. That is a busy suburb with a parade, a petrol station and several pubs, packed in between the river and a royal park, and none of those figures explains a crime rate by itself. The most organised shooting in Ham happens at the rifle and pistol club near Ham House, which has been aiming at targets since 1907 or earlier.
The crime mix explains where the extra comes from. Anti-social behaviour makes up about 24% of recorded crime in Ham, against 16% across England and Wales. Violence and sexual offences account for about 22% here, well below the 35% national share. That category covers everything from common assault without injury upwards and is the largest almost everywhere. Shoplifting is 11% against 8% nationally, and vehicle crime 9% against 5%. Other theft is level with the national figure at 7%, and burglary is 6% against 4%. Taken together, Ham has more than its share of crime against cars, shops and the peace, and less than its share of crime against people.
The Metropolitan Police Service charges a suspect in about 10% of cases across its whole area, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 33rd of 42 forces. About 53% of the force's cases in the year to May 2026 were closed with nobody identified. Those are force-wide numbers covering every borough the Met polices. They show what happens after a report is made, which is a separate question from how often something happens in Ham. If your car is broken into on a Ham street, the odds are that nobody will be identified.
Ham is not a dangerous place, but it is one of its weaker points. Most of the crime is nuisance, shoplifting and theft from cars, and there is more of it than a Richmond address leads people to expect.