Yes, comfortably. Crime runs about a quarter below the district average. The whole year's tally stays under two hundred. The weaker number belongs to the county police force, not the village. Ticehurst's crime figures are mostly the record of a quiet place being counted carefully.
Police recorded 170 crimes in the Ticehurst area in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 54 per 1,000 residents. That sits roughly 27% below the average for Rother, the district around it. The figure covers a full twelve months, June 2025 to May 2026, so a single bad weekend can't tip it into a different story.
Put side by side, the numbers are plain enough: about 54 crimes per 1,000 residents in Ticehurst against about 73 per 1,000 across Rother. The district is hardly lawless, and Ticehurst still comes in well under it.
The setting helps explain the texture without being the cause of anything. Across its built-up streets, Ticehurst averages about 1,900 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 3% and about 3% of households are overcrowded. That is a settled village with work, space and room to breathe, and the crime rate looks like it belongs to one.
The mix needs handling carefully, because 170 crimes is a small base and a handful of incidents can move any share by several points. Violence and sexual offences made up about 43% of the total, against about 35% nationally; that category is the largest almost everywhere and takes in common assault without injury, so the headline sounds worse than the range it covers. Anti-social behaviour was about 14%, slightly under the national 16%. Public order and criminal damage were about 9% each, against about 7% nationally for both, and other theft about 8% against 7%. Vehicle crime was about 6%, near the national 5%. Most of those shares sit within a couple of points of the country as a whole, and with numbers this small, a quiet year or a noisy one would reshuffle them. Treat the mix as a snapshot, not a character reference.
The less comfortable figure is what happens after a report, and it belongs to the police force, not to Ticehurst. Sussex Police charged a suspect in about 10% of cases over the same twelve months, against about 12% nationally, which placed it 35th of 42 forces. About 48% of its cases closed with nobody identified. Those numbers answer a different question from the crime rate. They say nothing about how often something happens in Ticehurst and a fair amount about the odds of seeing the outcome in court when it does. The honest reading for a buyer is that little happens, and when it does, the force-wide record on catching anyone is middling at best.
Safety is one of Ticehurst's real strengths: a crime rate well below an already unremarkable district, from a small base that points steadily the same way. Lock the shed out of habit, not fear.