Yes, safe enough that the neighbourhood watch sticker is there mostly for decoration. Crime runs about a quarter below the rest of the Horsham district. Hardly anyone is out of work. Hardly anyone is squeezed into a house too small for them. Crime is rarely the problem here. If it does happen to you, the real problem is how seldom anyone gets charged.
Police records for the Pulborough area show 1,303 crimes in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 42 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 27% below the Horsham district average, and the figures cover Pulborough and the villages around it, not only the village.
The district rate over the same year was about 57 crimes per 1,000 residents. Horsham district is hardly a crime hotspot to begin with, and this area still comes in well under it.
The area is spread out and settled. Its neighbourhoods average about 1,600 people per square kilometre, unemployment is about 2% and about 1% of households are overcrowded. Those figures describe the kind of place this is: roomy, mostly employed, with few people crammed into small homes. None of them explains the crime rate on its own, but they give the numbers above some context.
What is recorded looks much like the national pattern. Violence and sexual offences make up about 36% of crime here against about 35% nationally, which is the largest category almost everywhere and covers everything up to common assault without injury. Anti-social behaviour is the one that stands out, at about 22% against 16% nationally. Criminal damage and arson makes up about 8% against 7%, and public order offences about 8% against 7%. Other theft is about 6% against 7%, and vehicle crime about 5% against 5%. So the only real difference from the national mix is the anti-social behaviour, and a minority of residents are the ones making most of the noise.
What happens after a crime is reported is a separate question from how much crime there is. Sussex Police charged a suspect in about 10% of cases in the year to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 35th of 42 forces. About 48% of its cases were closed with no suspect identified. These are force-wide figures, not Pulborough's own. They tell you about the odds of justice once something has happened, not about the odds of it happening in the first place.
Safety is one of Pulborough's real strengths: crime is low, and it sits well under a district that already has little of it. The slow police follow-up is a separate worry, and it bothers the few who need it far more than the many who never will.