Yes, Stokenchurch is a safe place to live. Recorded crime is well below the Buckinghamshire average. The numbers are small. Most of what does happen looks much the same as anywhere else in England. Being one of the calmer corners of a fairly calm county is no bad thing.
Police recorded 225 crimes in Stokenchurch in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 48 per 1,000 residents. That rate is roughly 26% below the average for Buckinghamshire as a whole. In a village of this size, one busy month can shift that count noticeably.
Across Buckinghamshire the rate for the same twelve months was about 65 crimes per 1,000 residents, against about 48 here. Whatever is pushing the county figure up, most of it happens somewhere else.
The village's neighbourhoods average about 2,910 people per square kilometre. That figure covers the built-up streets and not the fields around them, so it is a village with houses close together. About 3% of working-age residents are unemployed and about 2% of households are overcrowded. In short, a settled village of working households, on the evidence of all three.
The breakdown by type comes with a warning attached. The totals are small enough that a handful of incidents moves a share by several points. Violence and sexual offences made up about 42% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally, in a category so broad it includes common assault where nobody was injured. Anti-social behaviour was about 15%, close to the national 16%, and criminal damage and arson about 8% against 7%. Other theft, at about 7%, matches the national share. Drugs offences, at about 7%, are above the national 4%, and public order, at about 6%, is just below the national 7%. With totals this small, a few cases more or less in any category would change that list, so it reads better as one year's count than as a description of the village. The parish's best-known violence is still a battle against the Danes on nearby Beacon Hill in 914, recorded in the church guide, and local legend says the juniper there grows where blood was spilt. The juniper has had a quiet few centuries since.
After a crime is reported, the outcome is down to Thames Valley Police, which charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally. That puts it 37th of 42 forces. About 37% of its cases are closed without anyone identified as a suspect. Those are force-wide figures covering a large area well beyond this village, and they tell you about the chance of someone being charged, which is a separate question from whether Stokenchurch is safe.
Stokenchurch is one of the safer places to live in Buckinghamshire, and a buyer has very little to worry about on safety.