Yes, on the numbers. Pevensey posts about 51 recorded crimes per thousand residents a year, sitting roughly 6% below the Wealden average. Around 637 incidents landed on the log in the twelve months to March 2026. That is what a settled coastal village looks like on the crime register. Nothing about the reported picture reads as a warning label.
The published rate for the area comes in at about 51 per thousand residents, against a Wealden district average of about 55 per thousand. That six percent gap is not a rounding error and it is not enormous. It sits in the middle of what "at the local-authority average" means in practice: the village is not conspicuously safer than its neighbours, and it is not conspicuously worse. Roughly 637 recorded incidents across a twelve-month window is the volume that generates the rate, and the rate is what should be read, not the raw count. The population base used for the published rate is the statistical geography the police use, which is not the same as the resident population on the parish register, so dividing 637 by the village headcount will give a different number than the one policing authorities actually work with. Read the published figure. Ignore the arithmetic temptation.
What the raw counts do not tell you is how those 637 incidents split between categories, streets, or times of day, and this page does not carry that breakdown. What they do tell you is the aggregate shape: below the district average, well below anywhere with an urban centre or a night-time economy, and in line with a village of around 10,860 residents that is not a through-route for anywhere. Coastal villages built between drained marsh and shingle beach have a specific traffic pattern: people who are there are usually there for a reason. That reduces the opportunistic end of the crime spectrum without eliminating it. Property crime, vehicle offences, and low-level antisocial behaviour still occur, because those things occur everywhere. What is absent is the concentration that turns a rate from broadly-normal into notable.
The safety verdict lands at four out of five, which is above average for the local area and well above average nationally. Pevensey is a quiet coastal village where the crime numbers behave the way a buyer would hope, and the specific address matters less than the postcode-level picture because the postcode-level picture is what the data actually resolves to.