Yes, and the crime figures are small enough to fit on a parish noticeboard. Crime runs well under the borough rate. Unemployment barely registers. A single bad month shows up in the numbers. The risk here is less about being a victim and more about whether anyone gets charged afterwards.
Police figures put Kingsclere at about 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents over the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026, from 224 recorded crimes in that period. Both are published figures for the area, and the rate uses its own population base rather than a simple division of one by the other. For a village of this size, 224 crimes in a year is the kind of total where every incident is somebody's conversation at the post office.
The borough comparison makes the gap plain. Across Basingstoke and Deane the published rate over the same period was about 72 crimes per 1,000 residents, against Kingsclere's 44. Nobody moving here from the town is trading down on safety, and a fair few are moving here precisely to trade up.
The neighbourhood behind those numbers is spread out and settled. Population density averages about 2,220 people per square kilometre across the village's statistical areas, unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 1% of households are overcrowded. That is the texture of a place where most people have a job, a spare room and a driveway, which describes the area rather than explaining the crime rate.
The mix of crime needs handling with care, because the totals are small enough that a handful of incidents moves any share by several points. Violence and sexual offences made up about 45% of recorded crime, against about 35% nationally; that category is the largest almost everywhere and covers a wide range, including common assault without injury. Burglary accounted for about 13%, against about 4% nationally, and public order about 10%, against about 7%. Criminal damage and arson came to about 8% and other theft about 7%, both close to their national shares of about 7%. On a base this small, the mix is a snapshot of one year, not a settled feature of the village, and two or three burglaries on one street would account for the gap on their own.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and it is answered at force level. Hampshire Constabulary charged a suspect in about 9% of cases over June 2025 to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, which placed it 38th of 42 forces. About 35% of its cases were closed with no suspect identified. That is a force-wide figure covering the whole county, not a Kingsclere statistic, and it says nothing about how safe the village is. It does say that if the shed does get emptied, the odds of seeing someone in court are not the headline to plan around.
Safety is one of Kingsclere's real strengths: the crime rate sits well below the borough's, and the weak link is the county force's charge rate, not the village itself.