Haslemere is safe, in the unremarkable way a Surrey market town should be. Crime runs a shade above the rest of the borough. The mix looks like everywhere else's. Anti-social behaviour is lower than the national norm. Not dangerous, then, just not the fortress the house prices might have you expecting.
Police records for June 2025 to May 2026 put Haslemere's published crime rate at about 49 crimes per 1,000 residents, from 878 recorded crimes over those twelve months. That rate sits roughly 6% above the Waverley average. Six percent is the kind of gap that reads as a headline and turns out to be noise in practice. It won't make anyone move, and it shouldn't stop anyone either.
Set the two figures next to each other and the gap looks smaller still: about 49 per 1,000 in Haslemere against about 46 per 1,000 across Waverley as a whole. Waverley is a quiet borough to begin with, so being a few points above its average still leaves Haslemere well inside the calm end of the country. The comparison is against the neighbours, and the neighbours set a low bar for trouble.
The neighbourhood itself is comfortable. Population density averages about 2,200 people per square kilometre, which is a town with room between its houses. Unemployment stands at about 2% and overcrowding at about 2%. That describes the area. It doesn't explain its crime rate one way or the other.
The crime mix looks like everywhere else's. Violence and sexual offences make up 35% of recorded crime, against 35% across England and Wales. That category is the largest almost everywhere and includes common assault with no injury, so a share that matches the national one is a non-event. Anti-social behaviour is 13% here against 16% nationally, so less of it than average. Shoplifting is where Haslemere stands out, at 13% against 8% nationally, alongside public order offences at 9% against 7%. Criminal damage and arson at 7% and other theft at 7% both match the national shares almost exactly. A town whose most noticeable crime is somebody walking out of a shop without paying has a fairly specific kind of problem, and it's a retailer's problem more than a homeowner's.
After a crime is reported, the numbers are less comforting. Surrey Police, the force that covers Haslemere along with the rest of the county, charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% across England and Wales. About 36% of the force's cases are closed with nobody identified. Those are force-wide figures, not Haslemere's own, and they measure what happens after a crime rather than how likely one is. The honest answer to "will they catch them" is: usually not, same as in most of the country.
Haslemere's safety is middling in the most reassuring sense of the word: slightly above a very low local average, with a crime mix that could belong to almost any English town, and nothing on the record that should change where you buy.