Yes, and by some distance. The published crime rate here sits at about thirty incidents per thousand residents a year. That is roughly forty-eight percent below the Horsham District average. About one hundred and twenty recorded incidents across the twelve months ending March 2026. The rate is the published-report figure rather than the census-arithmetic one; the two use different denominators, and buyers should not try to derive one from the other. Village-quiet, not gated-community-quiet, and there is a real difference between the two.
Both figures here are published police numbers from the same reporting framework, which means they are directly comparable to each other and to figures for any other place in England published under the same framework. The rate is calculated against the statistical area used by that framework, and the statistical area does not match the census village population, so a buyer trying to cross-check by dividing one hundred and twenty incidents by three thousand residents will land at a different figure and should not worry about the gap. The two published figures matter. The arithmetic between them does not. The comparison that carries meaning is the local one. Horsham District, the surrounding council area, publishes a rate of about fifty-seven incidents per thousand residents. Upper Beeding sits at about thirty. A village postcode running at half its local-authority rate is what the same police framework says when it looks at a rural West Sussex village next to the urban and semi-rural bits that share the district. The twelve-month window ending March 2026 covers a full annual cycle, and a single quiet month or a single seasonal spike does not change the reading. What this translates to on the ground is the safety register of a rural English village that is neither rough nor remote. A village running at thirty per thousand is one where an unusual incident tends to become the local conversation of the week, because it does not happen often enough to blend into background noise. The everyday-safety experience matches the numbers rather than fighting them, which is the useful thing for a buyer to know before signing anything.
The safety verdict lands at five out of five. As safe as an English rural village that has not put up gates and cameras can plausibly be, and the local, county, and national arithmetic all point the same direction. Buyers who move here for the quiet get the quiet the numbers describe. Buyers arriving from postcodes with different assumptions about what a normal week sounds like are in for a comparatively boring adjustment, and boring is the correct word to want when the question is safety. Village life delivered as advertised, which is not the kind of claim the property market usually bothers to make.