Yes. Liphook is about as safe as the rest of East Hampshire, which is to say ordinary. Crime runs a little below the district average. Unemployment barely registers. Anti-social behaviour is well below the national share. Liphook isn't a crime hotspot and it isn't free of crime either. It's an ordinary village with a supermarket and a few pubs.
Police figures for the year from June 2025 to May 2026 put Liphook's published crime rate at about 46 crimes per 1,000 residents, from 528 recorded crimes over the twelve months. That's roughly 4% below the local-authority average. A gap that small says the village is in line with its district, not ahead of it, so neither a seller's agent nor a nervous buyer can make much of it.
For comparison, the rate across East Hampshire as a whole was about 48 per 1,000 over the same period. Liphook's 46 and the district's 48 are close enough that a handful of incidents a year could close the gap. If anyone describes the village as a haven or as a problem, these two figures don't support either claim.
The area producing those numbers is fairly relaxed. Population density averages about 2,390 people per square kilometre across the village's neighbourhoods, which is a village with an estate or two, not a town centre. At the 2021 Census about 2% of residents were unemployed and about 2% of households were overcrowded. Those figures describe the kind of place Liphook is, not a cause of its crime.
The type of crime is where it gets more specific, and each figure means more next to the national one. Violence and sexual offences make up about 42% of Liphook's recorded crime, against about 35% across England and Wales. That's higher than the national share, but this category is the largest almost everywhere, and it covers a wide legal range, including common assault where nobody was hurt. Other theft runs at about 11% against 7% nationally, and shoplifting at about 10% against 8%. Criminal damage and arson (about 8% against 7%) and public order offences (about 8% against 7%) are close to the national shares. Anti-social behaviour goes the other way, at about 8% of the local total against about 16% nationally. Anti-social behaviour is the category behind most complaints on neighbourhood forums, and in Liphook it's unusually low.
What happens after a crime is reported is a separate question, and the answer is less comfortable. Hampshire Constabulary charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the year from June 2025 to May 2026. That puts the force 38th of 42 in England and Wales. About 35% of its cases were closed with no suspect identified. These are figures for the whole force, not for Liphook, and they measure how likely the police are to charge someone, not how much crime there is. For a buyer, that means locks and a doorbell camera will do more than relying on the police to catch someone afterwards.
Liphook is middling for safety: close to its district's norm, with little to worry about but no reason for complacency either. Anyone moving here to get away from crime will find a lot of it has come too.