Rickmansworth is about as safe as the district around it, which puts it squarely in the middle on crime. The rate matches its neighbours almost to the decimal. Anti-social behaviour runs a little above the national share. Violence and sexual offences run close to it. Nothing here makes headlines, and nothing makes the town a sanctuary either.
Hertfordshire Constabulary's published figures for June 2025 to May 2026 put Rickmansworth's crime rate at about 68 per 1,000 residents, from 2,302 recorded crimes over those twelve months. A full year of reports means one rowdy weekend can't move the figure far in either direction.
Three Rivers as a whole, the district Rickmansworth belongs to, recorded about 69 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same year. Set side by side, 68 and 69 are the same number wearing slightly different coats. For a buyer, the town delivers exactly the crime level of the district it sits in.
The neighbourhood texture is that of a busy suburban town. Average population density across Rickmansworth's neighbourhoods is about 4,480 people per square kilometre, unemployment is about 2%, and about 3% of households are overcrowded. That is a settled, employed and mostly comfortable set of streets, with a town centre, a station and enough shops to give people something to do and occasionally something to take.
By type, violence and sexual offences make up about 36% of Rickmansworth's recorded crime, against about 35% nationally, so the town's share is close to everywhere else's. That category is the largest almost everywhere and covers a wide legal range, down to common assault without injury. Anti-social behaviour accounts for about 20% here against 16% nationally, and other theft about 10% against 7%, the two places the town runs a little ahead. Shoplifting at about 8%, public order at about 6% and vehicle crime at about 5% all sit at or just below their national shares. The useful check for a particular house is the street-level crime map on the police.uk site, which shows where those anti-social behaviour reports cluster, because a town average spreads the station forecourt across every cul-de-sac.
What happens after a report is a force-wide question. Hertfordshire Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 23rd of 42 forces in England and Wales over the twelve months to May 2026. About 40% of its cases closed with no suspect identified. Those figures describe the whole county force and say nothing about how likely a crime is in Rickmansworth itself; they answer whether someone gets caught, and the honest answer across Hertfordshire is usually not.
Rickmansworth is middling on safety: a town where crime is exactly as common as the district expects, with a slight lean towards nuisance over anything more serious.