Yes, Ruislip is a safe area. Crime here runs well below the rest of the borough. Most of it is low-level. The car on the drive is a likelier target than the person who owns it.
Police.uk publishes a rate of about 75 crimes per 1,000 residents for Ruislip in the year to May 2026, from about 4,740 recorded crimes over those twelve months. That rate uses its own population base, published alongside the figure, so it shouldn't be checked against a head count of the suburb. The Metropolitan Police have covered Ruislip since 1845, and for close to a century the local station was a house on the High Street, first rented and later bought.
Across Hillingdon as a whole, the published rate is about 131 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same year, against about 75 in Ruislip. Hillingdon's headline is made mostly elsewhere in the borough, and a buyer comparing borough-wide tables will find Ruislip sitting comfortably in the lower half of its own council's figures.
The neighbourhood behind those numbers is busy but stable. There are about 5,800 people per square kilometre, about 3% of residents are unemployed and about 6% of households are overcrowded. That is a densely built interwar suburb with steady work and enough rooms to go round, and none of those three figures makes crime happen on its own.
The mix of crime is where Ruislip differs from the national pattern. Antisocial behaviour makes up about 23% of recorded crime here against about 16% nationally, and violence and sexual offences about 22% against about 35%. That is a wide statutory category that includes common assault without injury, and here it comes in well under the national share. Shoplifting accounts for about 12% against 8%, and vehicle crime about 12% against 5%. Other theft, at about 7%, and public order, at about 6%, sit close to the national shares. The pattern is property and nuisance: a parade of shops worth taking from and plenty of cars worth breaking into. The police.uk street map for the exact road is the place to see whether a particular house is near the parade or tucked well behind it.
The charge rate is a force-wide figure and measures something different from safety. The Metropolitan Police Service charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 33rd of 42 forces in the year to May 2026. About 53% of its cases close with no suspect identified. A low crime rate means less happens here, and the force figure says what happens once something does.
Safety is one of Ruislip's real strengths. Crime is low and most of it is the petty sort, so the realistic worries are a car window and a hedge somebody has kicked through.