Yes, Lymington is a safe area in the way most people mean the question, which is that nothing much happens and the map that records it is a quiet read. The recorded crime rate runs at about 59 offences per thousand people a year, close to level with the wider New Forest average. Across the twelve months to spring 2026 the town logged just under a thousand recorded offences in total. That is neither a reassuringly tiny number nor an alarming one. It is the figure you get from an ordinary, settled town going about its business.
Put plainly, Lymington sits almost exactly where its own district sits. The local rate is barely above the New Forest average, close enough that the gap is noise rather than signal, so there is no honest way to sell the town as either a haven or a hotspot. The published rate and the district figure are built the same official way, which means the fair comparison is town against district, not the crime count divided by however many people happen to live within the boundary. Do the sum that second way and you would be measuring two different things and calling them one. On the proper measure, this is a place that lands squarely in the middle of its own map.
What the headline figure will not tell you is where and when. A town rate is an average smeared across quiet residential streets, a working quay, a summer tourist trade, and the handful of spots where a night out concentrates. Somewhere inside that average are roads that never trouble the record at all and a few pinch points doing more of the lifting than their size suggests. The number on this page is the whole town at once, which is useful for a first impression and useless for choosing a street. For that you read the map at street level, and better still, walk the specific road at the hours you would actually be on it.
On safety, Lymington earns a middle-of-the-road three out of five, and that rating is the honest one. It is not the safest place on the coast, and it is nowhere near the least safe. It is a settled town that sits at its district average and hands you very little to worry about beyond the ordinary, which for most buyers is precisely the answer they were quietly hoping the map would give them.