Yes, and a touch safer than the district around it. Crime runs a little below the Horsham district average. Burglary shows up no more often than it does nationally. A few hundred recorded crimes in a year across the whole village. Rudgwick's crime figures are dull, and in a crime table dull is exactly what you want.
Police figures for the year from June 2025 to May 2026 put Rudgwick's crime rate at about 54 crimes per 1,000 residents, roughly 6% below the local-authority average. That comes from 268 recorded crimes over the twelve months. The published rate uses its own population base, so the two numbers are best read as they're given rather than checked against each other on a calculator.
For comparison, the rate across Horsham district as a whole is about 57 per 1,000. That puts the village at 54 against a district at 57. It's a small gap, and the honest reading is that Rudgwick sits at or slightly under the level of a district that isn't known for crime in the first place. Anyone expecting a rural idyll with no crime at all will be disappointed by the arithmetic, not by the village.
The neighbourhood behind those numbers is spread out and settled. The average density is about 1,050 people per square kilometre. Unemployment is about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. It's a village of roomy houses where most adults are either working or retired.
The mix of crimes needs care, because the totals are low enough that a handful of incidents can move a share by several points. With that caveat, violence and sexual offences make up about 41% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally. That category is the biggest almost everywhere and includes common assault without injury, so it sounds worse than it usually is. Criminal damage and arson make up about 15%, against about 7% nationally, which is the one figure that stands out and the one most likely to be a few broken windows or damaged cars counted in a small place. Anti-social behaviour is about 14% against 16% nationally, and other theft about 9% against 7%. Vehicle crime, at about 5%, and burglary, at about 4%, sit almost exactly on the national shares. None of this is a settled picture of the village. A quiet year or a bad week on one street could redraw it.
What happens after a crime is reported is a separate question, and it's answered at force level, not village level. Sussex Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 35th of 42 forces. About 48% of cases are closed with no suspect identified. That says nothing about how safe Rudgwick is. It says that if something does happen, you shouldn't count on a conviction to fix it, so good locks and a camera on the drive are worth more than a strongly worded report.
Rudgwick is a safe place to live, a little under its own district's crime rate and uneventful in most categories. What's left over is ordinary village trouble, not a reason to look elsewhere.