Yes, and it makes Guildford look like the lively one, which takes some doing. Crime runs about a fifth below the Guildford average. Unemployment barely registers. Homes are rarely crowded. Safety here is the default setting, not the selling point.
Police.uk records put the Shalford area at about 68 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, with 381 crimes recorded over those twelve months. That's roughly 22% below the Guildford average. Both are published figures, the rate calculated on its own statistical population base, so it's the number to compare rather than something to rework at home with a calculator.
Across the Guildford borough as a whole, the rate over the same year was about 87 crimes per 1,000 residents, against about 68 in the Shalford area. Guildford is hardly a crime capital, and Shalford still comes in comfortably under it.
The area around Shalford averages about 1,340 people per square kilometre, unemployment stands at about 2% and about 1% of households are overcrowded. That's the texture of a settled, spread-out, working part of Surrey: few crowded homes, few people out of work, and plenty of room between front doors. None of those figures makes crime happen or stops it, but they describe the kind of place producing these numbers.
The mix of recorded crime comes with a warning attached. Totals here are low enough that a handful of incidents moves a share by several points, so none of this is a fixed trait of the place. Violence and sexual offences make up about 34% of recorded crime, against about 35% nationally, so essentially the national pattern; the category is a broad legal grouping that includes common assault without injury and tops the list almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour accounts for about 32%, against about 16% nationally, which in a quiet village often says as much about how readily people report things as about what's happening. Criminal damage and arson sit at about 8% against 7%, public order about 6% against 7%, vehicle crime about 5% against 5%, and other theft about 5% against 7%. Outside anti-social behaviour, the mix looks like everywhere else, only smaller.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and it's answered at force level, not village level. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the year from June 2025 to May 2026, ranking 30th of 42 forces. About 36% of cases are closed with no suspect identified. That's no measure of how safe Shalford is; it's the honest answer to whether someone gets caught when something does go wrong, and the answer is usually not.
Shalford is one of the safer places a buyer could pick around Guildford, and safety is among its real strengths.