Mostly safe, sitting at the Fareham norm. The published crime rate runs at roughly 63 incidents per thousand residents per year. About 540 recorded crimes landed in the twelve months to spring 2026. That figure runs about five percent above the Fareham borough average of around 60 per thousand. Statistically the village sits at the local norm, which is the honest summary.
What the rate captures is a place where serious incidents are uncommon and the bulk of reported crime falls into the categories any post-war Hampshire village sees. The published figure covers the year from spring 2025 to spring 2026 and takes in every recorded offence from low-level public-order incidents through to residential burglary, theft, vehicle interference and assault, without a category breakdown in the figures available. Both the rate and the count are published statistics, and the rate is calculated against the local statistical-area population that the police force uses for per-thousand reporting rather than against the village's headline resident count of around 7,580. That is why the rate does not divide back from the count cleanly if you try the arithmetic in your head. Different population denominators, same village, no contradiction in the numbers. Sitting five percent above a local-authority average is a small lift in proportional terms rather than a meaningful jump, and the kind of gap that disappears inside normal year-on-year variation. The Fareham borough itself runs at a typical south-coast suburban rate, neither a low-crime sanctuary nor a busy urban centre, and Stubbington tracks that profile with a small upward bias rather than a real divergence. There is no concentration in the figures worth flagging, no specific street the published series calls out, and no year-on-year step change that would warrant alarm. A small Hampshire village registering at roughly the local average is what a small Hampshire village should register at, and a village registering far below the local average would warrant a check that the area boundary had not been drawn unusually. Stubbington does neither, which is reassurance of a quiet kind. What that means in practice for buyers and renters is that safety is unlikely to be the line on which the decision turns. Buildings and contents cover will price as standard residential risk, the postcode will not flag with insurers as a high-risk area, and the day-to-day feel of the village is what the rate implies. Anyone moving from a higher-crime urban postcode will register the difference within a week. Anyone moving from a lower-crime rural one may find the village marginally busier on a Saturday night. Either reaction is reasonable. Both reactions describe the same village.
The figures put Stubbington a touch above the Fareham average and the lived experience puts it right at it. The honest answer to the question is yes, with a footnote rather than a caveat.