Safe enough, though busier than the rest of Elmbridge. Recorded crime runs about a quarter above the borough average. The mix of offences looks much like the rest of the country's. Surrey Police charge someone in slightly fewer cases than forces nationally. Walton only looks rough next to Elmbridge, which marks on a very gentle curve.
Police.uk published 2,470 recorded crimes for Walton in the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 78 per 1,000 people. That is roughly 24% above the Elmbridge average. The rate comes from police.uk's own population base for the small statistical areas involved, so the count and the rate shouldn't be checked against each other with a calculator.
Elmbridge as a whole sits at about 63 per 1,000 over the same year, against Walton's 78. The gap is real, but it's the gap between a town with a high street and a borough average that takes in plenty of places without one. Comparing a town centre with the rest of Elmbridge was always going to flatter Elmbridge.
The texture of the place is ordinary suburban Surrey. Walton has an average density of about 5,960 people per square kilometre, unemployment of about 3% and about 4% of households overcrowded. None of that explains the crime figure, and none of it describes somewhere under strain. Spend an evening walking from the station to the high street and back before committing to a flat near either. The police.uk map for the exact street will tell you more than any town-wide rate.
The breakdown by category is unremarkable in the literal sense. Violence and sexual offences, a broad legal grouping that includes common assault without injury, make up about 34% of Walton's recorded crime against about 35% nationally. Anti-social behaviour is 14% here and 16% nationally, and criminal damage and arson are about 7% in both. Shoplifting runs at 9% against 8%, and other theft at 6% against 7%. The one category clearly ahead is public order, at 9% here against 7% nationally. Twenty-four pubs on the business rates list will produce some of that on a Saturday, and they're doing what pubs everywhere do.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how much crime there is. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% for forces nationally, which puts it 30th of 42 forces in England and Wales. About 36% of its cases close with no suspect identified. These are figures for the whole force across Surrey, so they say nothing specific about Walton's streets. They tell you how likely a stolen bike is to come home, and the answer is roughly what you'd guess.
Walton's safety is middling at best. It's an ordinary town with ordinary problems, set in a borough where ordinary counts as below the line.