Yes, Hamble-le-Rice is a safe place to live by the numbers that matter. The published crime rate runs at about 60 crimes per thousand residents a year. That sits roughly 11% below the wider Eastleigh average. Across a full year the area logged around 360 recorded crimes in total. For a settled village on the water, that is a quiet ledger, and the reputation matches the record rather than running ahead of it.
The comparison is the useful part. Hamble does not just look safe in isolation, it looks safe against the borough it belongs to, and Eastleigh is not a rough corner of Hampshire to begin with. Being roughly 11% under that already-modest local average puts the village in the calmer half of a calm area. Both of these are published rates built for comparison, so the honest way to read them is as a like-for-like verdict against the borough, not as a headcount you can reverse-engineer from the resident population. A village this size does not generate the kind of volume where a single bad weekend rewrites the picture, and the twelve-month total reflects that steadiness.
It is worth being clear about what the figures do and do not tell you. They give an area rate and a comparison, not a street-by-street map, so they answer the question of whether the place as a whole is safe rather than which corner of it is safest. There are no signals here of a concentrated trouble spot dragging the average up, which is often the story behind a scary-looking headline number somewhere else. In Hamble the average and the reality look like the same thing, which is the boring outcome buyers actually want. Boring, in the crime column, is the good result.
Hamble-le-Rice is safer than the borough around it, and that borough is not a hard place to beat gently. On the evidence available it rates as an above-average area for safety, the kind of village where the crime map is a short read and stays that way.