Romsey is a safe area, in the unremarkable way that comfortable market towns usually are. The published crime rate is roughly 59 offences per thousand people a year. That sits about four percent below the average for the wider local-authority area, which puts Romsey on the quieter side of ordinary. Over the most recent twelve months the town logged in the region of 1,200 recorded offences of all kinds. None of that is the profile of somewhere you would think twice about, and none of it is the profile of somewhere spotless either.
The honest reading of those numbers is boring, which is the reading you want when the subject is crime. A rate a touch under the local benchmark means Romsey is safer than the district it belongs to without being a fortress. Most of what gets recorded in towns like this is the low-drama stuff, the sort that annoys rather than frightens, and the headline rate covers everything from the serious to the trivial in one lump. What the figure does not do is single out streets, so treat it as a portrait of the town rather than a guide to individual roads, and remember that the safest-looking average still contains the odd bad night. A published rate is a summary, not a promise about your particular front door.
The verdict is that Romsey is a safe, settled place that comes in slightly below its area average and gives most residents very little to worry about day to day. Middling on the wider scale, reassuring on the local one, and about as eventful as a town full of people who moved here for the quiet was ever going to be.