Yes, North Baddesley is a safe area, and it isn't a close call. The published crime rate runs to about 40 recorded crimes per thousand people a year. That sits roughly 35% below the average for the wider Test Valley. Across the whole village, a little over 280 crimes were recorded in twelve months. For a place this size, that is the sort of number that makes the local news struggle for a story.
Put the rate in context and it looks even better. The Test Valley as a whole runs closer to 62 recorded crimes per thousand, so North Baddesley is not just quiet in isolation, it is markedly quieter than the district it belongs to. A gap of about a third below your own local-authority average is a genuine signal rather than statistical noise, and it is the kind of gap that tends to come from exactly the sort of place North Baddesley is: a settled, residential, owner-heavy village where most people know their street and nothing much is passing through. The honest way to read the published rate is as a comparison against similar statistical areas, not as a sum you can redo on the back of an envelope by dividing the crime count by the number of residents. Those two figures are built on different population bases, and treating one as a check on the other is how people talk themselves into a wrong conclusion.
What the headline number won't do is tell you which specific corner of the village had which specific incident, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise from a district-level figure. What it will tell you, reliably, is the shape of the place, and the shape here is calm. This is not a village fighting its reputation. It is a village that quietly is what the safety-conscious buyer hopes for and rarely bothers to check.
The blunt verdict is that North Baddesley is about as safe as a Hampshire commuter village gets, and the data backs the instinct all the way. Top marks on this one. If safety is high on your list, this is the box already ticked before you have finished reading.