Markyate is about as safe as the rest of its borough, which makes it neither a worry nor a selling point. Its crime rate is close to the borough figure. Unemployment is low. The one category that stands out is anti-social behaviour, a nuisance that does not usually put anyone in hospital.
Police recorded 507 crimes in Markyate in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 87 per 1,000 people, roughly 3% below the Dacorum average. That is a small gap, and in a village this size a few incidents either way would close it.
Across Dacorum as a whole the published rate is about 90 per 1,000 over the same year. So Markyate's 87 and the borough's 90 are near enough the same number, and a buyer coming from Hemel Hempstead would be moving to roughly the same odds with more fields in between.
The surrounding numbers describe a settled, working village. The neighbourhood areas average about 3,070 people per square kilometre, a figure pulled up by the tightly built old High Street and the post-war estates, and unemployment and overcrowding both run at about 2%. That is a place where most adults are at work and most homes have room to spare.
The mix is where Markyate differs. Violence and sexual offences make up a little over a third of recorded crime, close to the national share of about 35%, and that category includes common assault where nobody was hurt. Anti-social behaviour is about 27% of the total against about 16% nationally, so it is the category that clearly runs high here. Vehicle crime is about 8% against 5% nationally, and public order offences about 3% against 7%. The village leans towards noise, nuisance and things taken from cars, and away from trouble on the street. The police's street-level crime map shows where the reports actually land, and for a house on the High Street or near the main road it is worth checking whether that anti-social behaviour is happening close by or a few streets away.
Once something is reported, what happens next depends on the force. Hertfordshire Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, putting it 23rd of 42 forces. In about 40% of its cases nobody is identified at all. Those are force-wide figures covering the whole county, and they answer whether someone gets caught, a separate question from whether anything happens in the first place.
Safety in Markyate is average: a crime rate level with the borough, a lean towards nuisance and cars, and nothing in the figures to make a buyer change their mind either way.