Yes, by a meaningful margin. About fifty-two recorded crimes per thousand people over the last twelve months. The wider Chichester rate sits at about eighty-one. That's roughly a third lower than the local-authority average. The reputation for quiet matches the data, which is not the usual order of things.
The headline rate is the published per-thousand figure that lines the village up against the same metric the council and police forces use for everywhere else, so the comparison holds without any creative arithmetic. Over the twelve months ending March 2026, about a hundred and seventy-four crimes were recorded across Tangmere's neighbourhood areas, which is the volume figure sitting underneath the rate. Set against the wider Chichester rate of about eighty-one per thousand, the local figure of about fifty-two puts the village roughly thirty-six percent below the local-authority average. That gap is bigger than the rounding tolerance a reader might assume. It is a genuine lower-crime postcode, not a statistical flicker. The reasons for it will be the usual rural-fringe ones: limited night-time economy inside the village, no through-route for serious volumes of foot traffic after dark, and a population that thins out into residential streets rather than concentrating around a town centre. None of that makes any village immune to anything, because wherever people live things happen. The numbers do say this is a quieter postcode than most of West Sussex on the categories police record, and the gap to the average is wide enough that it would survive a poor month and still come in on the right side of average.
A village comfortably safer than the local average is the honest verdict. Tangmere sits at the top of the safety scale because the published numbers show it clearly enough that no one needs to talk themselves into it.