Yes. Overton is one of the quieter corners of its borough. Crime runs well below the Basingstoke and Deane rate. Hardly anyone is out of work. Hardly anyone is crammed in. The local drama mostly comes in the form of planning applications.
Police records for the year from June 2025 to May 2026 put Overton's crime rate at about 43 per 1,000 residents, roughly 39% below the local-authority average. That covers 228 recorded crimes across the year. Both are published figures, and in a village of this size they describe a place where crime happens rather than one where it defines the street.
For comparison, the rate across Basingstoke and Deane as a whole was about 72 per 1,000 over the same year. That puts Overton at 43 against the borough's 72, which is the gap between a village and a town with a nightlife and a train station people use.
The texture of the place fits the numbers. The small areas that make up Overton average about 2,500 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 1% of households are overcrowded. None of that causes low crime on its own, but it describes a settled village where most people have a job, a bit of space and not much reason to be out at 2am.
The crime mix needs handling with care, because with totals this low a few incidents can move a share by several points, so none of it should be read as a fixed trait of the village. Violence and sexual offences made up about 55% of recorded crime, against about 35% nationally. That category is the largest almost everywhere and covers a wide legal range, including common assault without injury, and when there is little other crime to dilute it, its share looks bigger than its volume. Anti-social behaviour made up about 12%, below the national 16%. Criminal damage and arson came to about 11%, against 7% nationally. Other theft was about 5% against 7%, shoplifting about 5% against 8%, and public order about 4% against 7%. The short version is that Overton has little shoplifting because it has little to shoplift from.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how much crime there is, and the answer comes from the force, not the village. Hampshire Constabulary charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, and ranks 38th of 42 forces on that measure over the year from June 2025 to May 2026. About 35% of its cases close with no suspect identified. That is a statistic about the whole of Hampshire, and it says nothing about how likely a crime is in Overton. It does say that if something does go missing from the shed, a crime reference number is the most likely outcome.
Safety is one of Overton's real strengths: a low crime rate, well under the borough's, in a settled village with little to attract trouble. The force's record on charging is the weak link, and it belongs to the county, not the village.