Yes, Hillingdon is a safe area, and by its own borough's standards a very safe one. Crime runs well below the borough average. Violence makes up a smaller share than it does nationally. Most of what does get recorded is nuisance and car crime. The worst most residents will see is a bad night for someone's wing mirror.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 4,212 crimes in Hillingdon in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, and the published rate comes to about 81 crimes per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 38% below the average for the London Borough of Hillingdon over the same twelve months. The figure covers a full year, so one bad weekend can't push it into a different story.
The rate across the whole borough was about 131 crimes per 1,000 residents, against about 81 here. The council area that shares the name runs at more than half as high again, and buyers scanning a borough-wide table may end up blaming Hillingdon for crime recorded somewhere else.
That rate comes from an outer suburb with an inner-city level of density. There are about 5,500 people per square kilometre, unemployment is about 3%, and about 7% of households are overcrowded. That is a lot of people on not much land, and very few of them are short of work or space.
The mix is where Hillingdon shows its suburban side. Violence and sexual offences make up about 27% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, and that category includes common assault with no injury. Anti-social behaviour accounts for about 25%, well above the national 16%, and vehicle crime about 9% against 5%. Public order, at about 6% against 7%, and other theft, about 6% against 7%, are close to the national pattern. Shoplifting is lower, about 6% against 8%. A suburb laid out around the driveway has ended up with the crime that comes with one.
Catching anyone is another matter, and those figures belong to the whole force, so they say nothing about Hillingdon in particular. The Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% across England and Wales, which puts it 33rd of 42 forces in the year to May 2026. About 53% of its cases close without a suspect being identified. That figure measures what happens after a crime is reported, and it has no bearing on how often crimes happen on a Hillingdon street.
Safety is one of Hillingdon's real strengths. Crime here is low, mostly minor, and well below the rest of its own borough.