Yes, Thames Ditton is safe, and safer than most of its own borough. Crime runs well under the Elmbridge rate. The mix of offences looks much like the country's. The one thing that stands out is cars. A low-crime village with one specific habit to watch.
Surrey Police recorded 876 crimes across Thames Ditton in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 52 per 1,000 residents. That's roughly 18% below the average for Elmbridge as a whole. The village was policed by the Metropolitan Police until this century, before Surrey took over, and the numbers have stayed fairly undramatic under both.
Set side by side, the borough-wide rate for Elmbridge is about 63 crimes per 1,000 residents against Thames Ditton's 52. The gap is real, and the village is the calmer end of an already comfortable borough.
The neighbourhood behind those numbers is suburban and settled. Population density averages about 4,240 people per square kilometre, unemployment is around 2% and about 2% of households are overcrowded. Those are the numbers of a place with gardens, jobs and room to spare. They describe the setting, and they don't explain the crime on their own.
The mix of offences is close to the national pattern almost across the board. Violence and sexual offences make up 36% of recorded crime here against 35% nationally, a broad legal category that includes common assault without injury and is the biggest one nearly everywhere. Anti-social behaviour is 15% against 16% nationally, criminal damage and arson 8% against 7%, other theft 8% against 7%, and public order 7% in both. Vehicle crime is the exception, at 10% of the total against 5% across England and Wales. It's the one category where Thames Ditton beats the country, and it's the wrong contest to win. Check the police's street-level crime map for the roads around a specific house, because thefts from cars cluster where cars are parked on the street overnight.
After a crime is reported, the odds of a charge are set at force level. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the twelve months to May 2026. About 36% of cases across the force are closed with no suspect identified. That's a measure of what happens across the whole county once something goes wrong, and it has no bearing on how often things go wrong in the village. Anyone whose car is broken into should expect the crime number to arrive faster than the culprit.
Thames Ditton is one of the safer places in Elmbridge, with ordinary risks and one bad habit around parked cars. Lock the car, use the driveway if there is one, and the rest of the village gives very little to worry about.