Smallfield is safe in the ordinary sense, not the chocolate-box sense. Crime runs a little above the rest of Tandridge. Violence sits at about the national norm. Nuisance makes up more of it than usual. Anyone who bought here expecting the village to have no police record bought the brochure.
The published figure for Smallfield is about 76 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, from 681 recorded crimes over those twelve months. That is roughly 8% above the local-authority average. It is a gap worth knowing about, not one worth losing sleep over. Nobody should move here thinking the crime figures would stay out of the survey pack.
Side by side, the Tandridge average is about 70 per 1,000 and Smallfield's is about 76. On a Tandridge map, Smallfield sits a shade darker than the district, not a different colour.
The neighbourhood is not a crowded one. Density averages about 1,600 people per square kilometre across the area, unemployment is about 2% and overcrowding is also about 2%. This is a village of driveways and spare bedrooms, and the crime rate has to be read against that backdrop rather than against a town centre.
The mix is where Smallfield parts company with the national average. Violence and sexual offences make up about 34% of recorded crime, against about 35% nationally. That is effectively level, and the category is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury, so the headline share sounds worse than it is. Anti-social behaviour is the real outlier, at about 22% against 16% nationally. Public order offences run at about 10% against 7%, and criminal damage and arson at about 9% against 7%. Other theft sits at about 7%, level with the national share, and vehicle crime at about 6% against 5%. The pattern points to the noise of people who had one drink too many rather than to anyone breaking in, and the parish complaints book probably reads the same way.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how much crime there is. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 30th of 42 forces. About 36% of cases close with no suspect identified. That is a force-wide figure, not Smallfield's own, and it measures the odds of an arrest, not the odds of being a victim. The honest answer to "will they catch them" is: usually not, here or anywhere else.
Smallfield sits in the middle on safety: slightly busier than the district and noisier than its size suggests, but not a place where crime should decide whether you buy.