Yes, and safer than the borough it sits in. Crime runs about a fifth below the local average. The offence mix looks like almost anywhere else in England, only smaller. Unemployment is close to nil. The drama in Reigate tends to be about planning applications.
Police figures for the year from June 2025 to May 2026 put Reigate's published crime rate at about 59 per 1,000 residents, roughly 21% below the Reigate and Banstead average. The town recorded 1,868 crimes over those twelve months. Both are published figures, and the rate is calculated on the police's own population base, so it will not match a sum done on the back of a council leaflet.
For the side-by-side, the Reigate and Banstead rate is about 74 per 1,000, against Reigate's 59. That gap is the headline. The borough is not a rough place by any measure, and Reigate still comes in comfortably under it, which puts it in the position of being the well-behaved sibling of a well-behaved family.
The neighbourhood texture fits the numbers. Reigate averages about 4,300 people per square kilometre, a proper town density rather than a scattered village. Unemployment is about 2% and about 3% of households are overcrowded. That is a settled, working, uncrowded town, the sort of place where the neighbourhood group chat escalates over bins rather than break-ins.
The mix of crimes is close to the national pattern. Violence and sexual offences make up about 33% of recorded crime, against about 35% across England and Wales. That category is the biggest almost everywhere and covers a wide legal range, down to common assault with no injury, so the local share being slightly under the national one is the useful fact, not the size of it. Anti-social behaviour is about 15%, against about 16% nationally. Shoplifting is about 10%, against about 8%, one of the few categories that runs a little ahead. Public order and criminal damage are both about 8% against about 7%, and other theft sits level at about 7%. Nothing in that list stands out from the national shape by more than a couple of points. Reigate is not unusual in what goes wrong, only in how little of it there is.
What happens next is a separate question, and it belongs to the force rather than the town. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the same year to May 2026, which places it 30th of 42 forces. About 36% of cases are closed with no suspect identified. That is a measure of the force's outcomes across the whole county, not a measure of how safe Reigate is, and the two should not be read together. A low crime rate says a burglary is unlikely. The charge rate says what the odds are if it happens anyway.
Reigate is one of the safer places in the borough and safety is among its real strengths, with a crime rate well below its neighbours and nothing unusual about the little crime it has.