Yes, and safer than most of West Berkshire. Crime here runs well below the council average. Unemployment is low. Overcrowding is close to nonexistent. The weaker figure is the police charge rate, not the town's crime rate.
Police figures for the Hungerford area put crime at about 48 per 1,000 residents in the year to May 2026, from 1,298 recorded crimes across the twelve months from June 2025. The published rate sits about 28% below the West Berkshire average. For a market town surrounded by downland, that's about what anyone who has walked the high street on a weekday afternoon would guess.
For comparison, West Berkshire as a whole runs at about 67 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same period, against about 48 for the Hungerford area. The gap is wide enough that it isn't a rounding quirk. If an estate agent calls the area "quiet", for once the crime figures agree.
The area itself explains some of it. Averaged across its neighbourhoods, the Hungerford area holds about 1,970 people per square kilometre, with unemployment at about 2% and about 2% of households overcrowded. That's a settled, spread-out place where most people have work and room to live. None of this proves why crime is low, but it's the kind of area where low crime isn't a surprise.
The mix needs reading alongside the national figures. Violence and sexual offences make up about 39% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally. That category is the largest almost everywhere and covers a wide legal range, including common assault with no injury, so the local share sits close to the national one rather than standing out. Anti-social behaviour is about 12% here against about 16% nationally, which is lower. Criminal damage and arson run at about 11% against 7%, and public order at about 8% against 7%. Burglary deserves a straight answer: it's about 8% of local crime against about 4% nationally, a larger share than the national mix. That's a share of a low total, not a high rate, but for a place full of detached houses on quiet lanes, it's worth a good lock and a conversation with the neighbours. Other theft sits at about 8% against 7%.
What happens after a crime is reported is a separate question from how much crime there is. Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which ranks the force 37th of 42. About 37% of its cases close with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures across the same twelve months, covering a large police area, not Hungerford's own record. They say nothing about how likely you are to be a victim here. They say a lot about how likely you are to see anyone in court if you are.
Safety is one of Hungerford's real strengths. Crime is low and residents have little to worry about day to day. The one worry is that when something does happen, the chance of anyone being charged is low.