Yes, and it isn't close. Crime runs about a quarter below the rest of Wealden. Unemployment barely registers. Overcrowding hardly exists. Nobody moves here for the nightlife, and the crime figures show it.
Police records put the Horam area's published crime rate at about 40 crimes per 1,000 residents in the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026. That's 338 recorded crimes across the year for the whole area around the village, not the village alone, and a rate roughly 27% below the Wealden average. In a district that is hardly a crime hotspot to start with, sitting that far under the average takes some doing.
The Wealden rate for the same year was about 55 crimes per 1,000 residents, against Horam's 40. Seeing both numbers matters. "Below average" can mean anything, and a gap of about fifteen crimes per 1,000 people is a real one.
The area behind those numbers is quiet in most of the ways that show up on a spreadsheet. Population density averages about 1,000 people per square kilometre across the neighbourhoods the figures cover. Unemployment was about 2% at the last census and overcrowding about 1%. That describes the kind of place Horam is. It doesn't explain the crime rate, and nobody should treat it as though it does.
The mix of offences needs handling carefully, because a total of 338 is small enough that a few incidents move a category's share by several points. Violence and sexual offences made up about 42% of recorded crime, against about 35% nationally. That's a broad legal category, and it includes common assault without injury, which is why it tops the list almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour was about 14%, slightly below the national 16%. Criminal damage and arson came to about 10% against 7%, other theft about 9% against 7%, public order about 8% against 7%, and burglary about 6% against 4%. Most of those sit within a few points of the national share. With a base this small, one busy month could reshuffle the order, so read it as a snapshot of one year, not a portrait of the village. Anyone who builds a verdict on a two-point gap in a total of 338 is reading too much into it.
Charging is a separate question from how much crime there is, and it's measured across the whole force, not in Horam. Over the same twelve months, Sussex Police charged a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which placed it 35th of 42 forces. About 48% of cases were closed with no suspect identified. That's the honest answer to "will they catch them", and it's not a flattering one. It says nothing about whether Horam is safe. It tells you what happens if the rare thing does happen.
On safety, Horam does about as well as a village in this district can, with a crime rate well below the district average in a district that was already calm. The weak link is what happens after a report, not how often anyone needs to make one.