Poyle is somewhat less safe than the rest of Slough, and its cars have more to worry about than its residents. Crime runs above the borough rate. Violence is about where it is everywhere else. Vehicle crime is higher. Few cases end in a charge. Lock the car, and the house mostly looks after itself.
Police.uk recorded 411 crimes in and around Poyle in the year from June 2025 to May 2026. The published rate works out at about 126 crimes per 1,000 residents, roughly 17% above the Slough average. Poyle has fewer than 2,000 residents, so that is a small number of incidents spread across a lot of industrial estate.
Across Slough as a whole, the rate over the same year was about 108 per 1,000. Poyle's is about 126. That gap is real, but a few dozen incidents either way would move it, and a buyer from a quiet market town will find both numbers higher than they are used to.
Poyle is fairly dense for somewhere that calls itself a village, at about 1,950 people per square kilometre. About 4% of working-age residents are unemployed, and about 15% of households are overcrowded. That is the background to the numbers. It does not explain them.
The mix of crime is where Poyle stands out, though the totals are small enough that a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points, so none of this should be read as permanent. Violence and sexual offences, a broad legal category that includes common assault without injury, make up about 36% of recorded crime, against 35% across England and Wales. That is effectively level. Anti-social behaviour is about 12%, against 16% nationally, so Poyle is less rowdy than average. Vehicle crime is about 11% against 5% nationally, and criminal damage and arson about 11% against 7%. Public order offences and other theft are both about 7%, roughly the national share. In Poyle the crime falls disproportionately on vehicles, and much less on people.
Thames Valley Police, the force covering Poyle, charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally. That puts it 37th of 42 forces. In about 37% of cases the force closes the investigation without anyone being identified. Both figures are force-wide, so they describe the police and say nothing about how safe Poyle itself is. A stolen number plate from a Poyle driveway is likely to stay stolen.
Poyle is below par on safety, with crime above the Slough level. For residents the difference shows up mostly in their insurance claims, far more than in their personal safety.