Yes, slightly safer than the borough it shares a name with. Crime runs just under the Windsor and Maidenhead average. Violence takes a slightly bigger slice than it does nationally. Antisocial behaviour takes a much smaller one. A town centre's worth of trouble, and not much more.
Thames Valley Police recorded 5,016 crimes in Maidenhead in the year to May 2026. The published rate over that year is about 65 crimes per 1,000 residents, roughly 5% below the average for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. For a town of this size with a railway station, a busy town centre and a motorway on its doorstep, that is an ordinary figure. The worst recorded visitors arrived by longboat in 870, came ashore at the wharf and moved on to Reading, and nothing since has quite matched them.
Set side by side, the two rates are about 65 per 1,000 for Maidenhead and about 69 for the borough as a whole. Maidenhead supplies half the borough's name and still comes in under its average.
The town is fairly densely built, at about 4,900 residents per square kilometre on average across its neighbourhoods. Unemployment was about 3% at the 2021 census, and about 4% of households were overcrowded. Those are the numbers of a comfortable commuter town, and the crime rate looks like the one such a town usually has.
The mix of crimes is close to the national pattern. Violence and sexual offences make up about 39% of recorded crime in Maidenhead, against about 35% across England and Wales, and that category covers a wide legal range, including common assault where nobody was hurt. Antisocial behaviour is about 10% locally against 16% nationally, the clearest difference in the list. Public order offences are about 9% against 7%, criminal damage and arson about 8% against 7%, other theft about 7% against 7%, and vehicle crime about 7% against 5%. Nothing in that list stands out, apart from Maidenhead having less of the low-level nuisance that fills most towns' reports. The police force's online crime map shows reports street by street for the last year, and a buyer looking near the station or the town centre should check the exact road on it.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and it is answered at force level. Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 37th of 42 forces in England and Wales over the year to May 2026. About 37% of its cases are closed with no suspect identified. That is a figure for the whole force, from Maidenhead to the far end of the Thames Valley, and it describes how cases are resolved rather than how often crime happens here.
Maidenhead is a safe place to live, a little better than its own borough and short on the everyday disorder that makes a town feel rough. Most residents will know the crime numbers mainly as a line on a page like this one.