Yes. Morden is safer than the borough around it. Crime runs below the Merton average. Anti-social behaviour makes up a bigger share of reports than usual. Violence makes up a smaller share than it does nationally. Most of what gets reported here is a nuisance rather than a danger.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 3,519 crimes in Morden in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 71 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 9% below the average for the London Borough of Merton.
Across Merton as a whole, the rate is about 78 per 1,000 against Morden's 71. The gap is real but modest. Morden is a calmer part of an ordinary London borough, and the borough itself is not one people tend to worry about.
On average there are about 7,800 people per square kilometre in Morden. Unemployment is about 3%, and around 10% of households are overcrowded. That makes it a busy interwar suburb of terraces, buses and a tube terminus. These figures describe the kind of place it is. None of them explains the crime figure, and nothing in the evidence links them to it.
Violence and sexual offences make up about 31% of recorded crime here, against about 35% across England and Wales. That broad category includes common assault without injury and is the largest almost everywhere, so a share below the national figure counts in Morden's favour. Anti-social behaviour is about 21% here against 16% nationally, and vehicle crime about 8% against 5%. Both are higher than the national share. Other theft (7%), public order (6% against 7%) and shoplifting (6% against 8%) are all close to or below the national mix. In other words, Morden gets more nuisance than the national average and less violence. The Crown, once the town's best-known pub, was folded into the building that now houses Merton Civic Centre in the 1960s. Not many towns have their council offices standing on top of the old pub.
Once a crime is reported, the Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the twelve months to May 2026. That puts it 33rd of 42 forces. About 53% of its cases close with no suspect identified. Those are figures for the whole of London's force, and they don't measure how safe Morden is. They tell you how likely a stolen bike is to come back, which is a separate question. The police's street-level crime map for the road you are looking at, including what happens near the station late at night, is more useful than any average.
Safety is one of Morden's genuine strengths. It has the ordinary troubles of a busy suburb, and less violence than you would expect for London.