Yes. Sandwich is one of the calmer parts of its district. Crime runs about a fifth below the local average. Unemployment is low. Hardly anyone lives in an overcrowded home. The headline number is lower than the district's, and the mix within it is worth reading before you draw conclusions.
Police.uk records put Sandwich at about 73 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to May 2026, with 517 crimes recorded over those twelve months. That rate is roughly 19% below the Dover district average. Both are published figures. The rate uses its own statistical population base, so it won't match a sum done with the town's headcount, and it shouldn't be expected to.
Put the two numbers side by side and the gap is clear. Sandwich sits at about 73 per 1,000, and the Dover district as a whole at about 90 per 1,000. Buyers comparing towns on the Kent coast will find the district figure dragged up by busier places, and Sandwich well clear of it.
The area itself has a settled, unhurried texture. Population density averages about 2,470 people per square kilometre across the built-up neighbourhoods. Unemployment is about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. None of these explains the crime figures on its own, but together they describe a town with room to breathe and most people in work, which is the kind of place where the police log is mostly routine. The worst night in the town's recorded history is still 1457, when a raiding party from Honfleur burned much of it to the ground. The current figures come nowhere near it.
The mix is where Sandwich differs from the national pattern, and it deserves a straight reading. Violence and sexual offences make up about 45% of recorded crime here, against about 35% across England and Wales. That category is the largest almost everywhere and covers a wide statutory range, including common assault without injury, but here it takes a larger share than usual. Anti-social behaviour follows at about 19%, against 16% nationally, and criminal damage and arson at about 10%, against 7%. Shoplifting runs at about 5% against a national 8%, and other theft at about 5% against 7%. So acquisitive crime is lower than the national pattern and the violence category is higher, within a total that is below the district's.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how much crime there is. Kent Police charges a suspect in about 16% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts the force sixth of 42 in England and Wales. That's a force-wide figure over the year to May 2026, not a Sandwich one, and it says nothing about how safe any street is. The honest answer to "will they catch them" is that about 36% of cases across the force are closed with no suspect identified. That's better than many forces, and still more than a third of cases that end without anyone being named.
Sandwich is safe, comfortably below its district. The one figure to look into is the higher-than-usual share of violent offences, and on these numbers it is a question to ask rather than a reason to rule the town out.