Yes, Laleham is a safe place to live. Crime here runs at a little over half the borough's rate. The mix of offences is close to the national mix. There are very few people out of work and very few crowded homes. Of everything that might worry a buyer in Laleham, crime comes near the bottom.
Surrey Police recorded 497 crimes in and around Laleham in the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 51 per 1,000 people. That's a full year of figures, so one bad month can't distort it much. The most dramatic change of ownership on record here was the Norman Conquest, when the manor passed from Aki the Dane to Fécamp Abbey and a nun called Estrild. Things have been calmer since.
Across Spelthorne as a whole, the rate over the same year was about 91 per 1,000. Laleham's 51 against the borough's 91 is a big gap. Whatever pushes Spelthorne's number up mostly happens elsewhere in the borough.
The village is built at about 2,600 people per square kilometre, which counts as suburban density. Unemployment is about 2%, and about 3% of homes are overcrowded. That describes the area. It doesn't explain the crime figures.
The mix of offences is close to the national pattern. Violence and sexual offences make up about 37% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally. That category covers a lot, including common assault where nobody is hurt, and it's the largest one almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour is about 16%, the same as the national share. Criminal damage and arson is about 10% against 7%, public order about 7% against 7%, vehicle crime about 6% against 5%, and other theft about 6% against 7%. With totals this small, a handful of incidents can move any of these shares by several points. Read them as one year's results, not a fixed feature of the village.
What happens after a report depends on the force. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 30th of 42 forces. About 36% of cases across Surrey are closed with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures for the whole county, and they show what happens after a crime is reported. They don't tell you how likely a crime is here. The low numbers in Laleham come from the village itself, not from Surrey Police's charging record.
Safety is one of Laleham's real strengths. The crime rate is low, the mix of offences is ordinary, and the gap with the rest of Spelthorne is wide.