Olney is a safe place to live, and comfortably safer than the city it belongs to. Crime runs at less than half the Milton Keynes rate. Antisocial behaviour is unusually rare. Almost nobody is out of work. The worst thing most people here report is the drive to somewhere else.
Thames Valley Police recorded 601 crimes in the Olney area in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 48 crimes per 1,000 residents. That puts the area roughly 55% below the Milton Keynes average for the same twelve months.
Across Milton Keynes as a whole, the published rate was about 107 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same year. Olney's figure is about 48. The city sets its own average, and Olney does very little to push it up.
The neighbourhoods behind those numbers are spread out and comfortable. Across its neighbourhoods the area averages about 2,600 people per square kilometre. At the 2021 Census about 2% of residents were unemployed and about 1% of households were overcrowded. Those are descriptions of the place, and none of them proves anything about cause. For the exact street you're considering, the police's own crime map shows recent reports month by month.
Violence and sexual offences are the largest category, at about 42% of recorded crime against 35% across England and Wales. That is a broad legal grouping that includes common assault without injury, and it tops the list almost everywhere, so a share a few points above the national one, from a small total, needs no alarm. Shoplifting is about 10% here against 8% nationally, other theft about 8% against 7%, and vehicle crime about 7% against 5%. Criminal damage and arson is level with the national share at about 7%. The standout is antisocial behaviour, at about 8% of recorded crime, half the national 16%. In a town that hosts a rugby club dating back to 1877, the organised shoving happens on a pitch with a referee watching.
What happens after a crime is reported depends on the force, which covers far more than Olney. Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the year to May 2026, ranking 37th of 42 forces. About 37% of its cases close without anyone being identified. That tells you how likely a case is to be solved once it's reported. It tells you nothing about how likely you are to need to report one.
Olney is about as safe a place to buy as Buckinghamshire offers. The figures that look worse belong to Thames Valley Police as a whole, and the town's own figures are good.