Yes, and it's safer than the district around it. The crime rate is about a third below the South Oxfordshire average. Almost nobody is out of work. Hardly anyone lives in overcrowded housing. Crime is so rare here that one rough weekend is enough to change the numbers.
Police-recorded figures for the year from June 2025 to May 2026 put Sonning Common's crime rate at about 34 per 1,000 residents, roughly 31% below the average for the local authority. In absolute terms there were 257 recorded crimes over those twelve months. For a village this size, that's a total that could fit on one page.
The comparison matters more than the percentage. South Oxfordshire as a whole records about 49 crimes per 1,000 residents, against about 34 here. South Oxfordshire isn't a crime hotspot to begin with, so Sonning Common beats a district average that was already low.
The kind of area behind those numbers is easy to describe. Across the village's neighbourhoods, density averages about 1,912 people per square kilometre, which is compact for a village but nothing like a town centre. Unemployment is about 2% and about 1% of households are overcrowded. None of that causes low crime, but it describes a settled place where most people own a home, have work and aren't competing for space.
The mix comes with a warning. The totals are small enough that a handful of incidents moves a category by several points, so treat what follows as a snapshot of one year, not a portrait of the village. Violence and sexual offences made up about 44% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally. That's the largest category almost everywhere, and it's a broad legal grouping that includes common assault without injury. Anti-social behaviour was about 10%, below the national 16%. Public order offences were about 9% against 7%, other theft about 9% against 7%, criminal damage and arson about 7%, level with the national figure, and burglary about 6% against 4%. The burglary share is the one a homeowner will look at twice. It's worth noting, but with this few crimes, it's no reason for alarm.
What happens after a crime is reported is a question for the force, not the village. Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally. That puts it 37th of 42 forces. About 37% of its cases close with no suspect identified. That's a force-wide figure, and it says nothing about how often crime happens in Sonning Common. It does tell you what to expect if you do report one: a crime number for the insurer and not much more. Lock the shed anyway.
Safety is one of Sonning Common's real strengths. The crime rate is well below an already calm district, and the only thing that looks weak is the force's charge rate, which says nothing about the village's streets.