Safe enough, and precisely as safe as the rest of Tandridge. Its crime rate matches the district's. What does get reported leans towards antisocial nuisance rather than violence. Hardly anyone is out of work. It's ordinary, in a district where ordinary is a decent place to be.
Police recorded 589 crimes across Lingfield in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 70 per 1,000 people. That puts it level with the local-authority average: not above it, not below, just on it. A village that spends its energy on a Tudor high street and a conservation area has ended up with a crime rate so average it could have been set by committee.
The Tandridge rate for the same year is also about 70 per 1,000. Seeing both numbers side by side matters. "About average" can hide a gap either way, and here there isn't one. Anyone moving in expecting a crime-free village or dreading a hotspot will be let down on both counts.
The neighbourhood behind those numbers averages about 2,300 people per square kilometre across its statistical areas. Unemployment is about 2%, and about 3% of households are overcrowded. That's a settled, working, mostly roomy place. Those figures describe the area. They don't explain the crime, and nobody should read them as if they did.
The mix is where Lingfield differs from the national pattern. Anti-social behaviour makes up about 33% of recorded crime here, against about 16% across England and Wales. Violence and sexual offences, the largest category almost everywhere and a broad legal grouping that includes common assault without injury, is about 27% here against about 35% nationally. Criminal damage and arson runs at about 11% against 7%, and vehicle crime about 7% against 5%. Public order sits at about 7%, close to the national share, and other theft at about 5% against 7%. So the tilt is towards nuisance and damage and away from violence: the kind of crime that gets complained about more than feared.
Once something is reported, Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which ranks it 30th of 42 forces in the year to May 2026. That is a force-wide figure, not Lingfield's own, and it answers a different question from how safe the streets are. The more useful number for a victim is that about 36% of cases across the force are closed with no suspect identified. A kicked-in fence panel is more likely to end up as a crime number than a court date.
Lingfield is middling for safety: level with its district, lighter on violence than the national pattern and heavier on nuisance. It suits buyers who can live with the odd broken wing mirror and don't need a fortress.