Yes. Roydon is a safe village, with a crime rate slightly below the district it belongs to. Violence and sexual offences make up a smaller share of the total than they do nationally. Cars are what draw thieves here. The numbers are small, so one bad month shows up quickly.
Police recorded 265 crimes in Roydon in the year to May 2026, which the published figures put at about 72 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 6% below the average for Epping Forest district. The published rate uses its own population base, so it will not match a figure worked out from the village's headcount. The total is low enough that a single burst of incidents could move the rate noticeably.
For comparison, the published rate across Epping Forest district was about 76 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same year, against Roydon's 72. The gap is small, and the village is close to the district average, a little on the better side.
The neighbourhood statistics fit that picture. Population density averages around 1,130 people per square kilometre, unemployment is about 2%, and about 4% of households are overcrowded. That describes a comfortable village of family-sized homes, with parked cars on most drives.
On the mix of crime, violence and sexual offences made up about 31% of Roydon's total, against about 35% nationally. That legal category runs all the way from serious offences down to common assault without injury, and here it is a smaller share than average. Anti-social behaviour was about 15%, close to the national 16%. The categories that stand out are vehicle crime at about 12%, against 5% nationally, and burglary at about 7%, against 4%. Criminal damage and arson came to about 9% against 7%, and other theft about 9% against 7%. With only 265 crimes in total, a few incidents in one category can move its share by several points, so this mix describes one year's tally, not a permanent feature of the village. Even so, with just over half of households running two or more cars, it is worth asking whether the house you are considering has parking off the road and out of sight.
As for what happens after a crime is reported, the police force covering this area, Hertfordshire Constabulary, charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally. That puts it 23rd of 42 forces. About 40% of its cases close with no suspect identified. These figures are for the whole force, so they say nothing about Roydon's streets in particular, and they measure how often the police get a result, not how much crime there is.
Roydon is a safe place to live, with crime a little below the district average and car crime the main thing to watch for.