Theydon Bois is a safe area, comfortably safer than the district around it. Crime runs about a fifth below the local average. Unemployment is low. Hardly anyone lives in an overcrowded home. Where crime does happen here it is mostly the kind that targets property, the cars on the drive and the houses behind them.
Police recorded 413 crimes across the Theydon Bois area in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 62 per 1,000 people. That is roughly 19% below the average for Epping Forest District.
In the district as a whole, the rate for the same year was about 76 per 1,000. Theydon Bois is at about 62. The difference is clear, and it is a real gap that the district's own average has to carry.
The area has about 1,950 people per square kilometre on average across its neighbourhoods. Unemployment was about 3% at the 2021 Census and about 2% of households were overcrowded. That's the profile of a settled commuter village where most people own their homes, and it describes the place without explaining its crime figures.
Violence and sexual offences made up about 42% of local crime over the year, against about 35% nationally. That category covers a wide legal range, down to common assault with no injury, and it is the largest category almost everywhere. Vehicle crime was about 13% locally against 5% nationally, burglary about 9% against 4%, and criminal damage and arson about 10% against 7%. Public order offences were level with the national share at about 7%. Anti-social behaviour made up about 6% here against 16% nationally, so the complaint that dominates crime figures in many towns barely shows up here. The totals are small, so a few incidents can move any of these shares by several points, and a single year's mix cannot be taken as fixed. The houses and the cars are worth more than most, and the people who come for those are the only visitors with no interest in the forest. The public street-level crime map will show what has been reported around a particular road, which is more useful than any village-wide average.
After a crime is reported, Essex Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases across the whole force, against about 12% nationally, ranking 28th of 42 forces. About 37% of the force's cases are closed with no suspect identified. That figure is about policing across Essex, and it says nothing about how likely you are to be a victim in Theydon Bois.
Safety is one of the village's real strengths. Crime here is lower than in the district around it, and the crimes that do happen here are mostly about property.