Yes, Wargrave is safe, and safer than most of the district around it. Crime runs well below the Wokingham average. Unemployment barely registers. Hardly anyone lives in an overcrowded home. For most buyers here, crime will be well down the list of worries.
Police figures for the year from June 2025 to May 2026 put crime in the Wargrave area, which also includes Charvil, Knowl Hill and Sonning, at about 34 per 1,000 residents. That's roughly 29% below the average for Wokingham as a whole. In that year 351 crimes were recorded across the whole area. That is the published total for the area as a whole, not for any one street, and it says nothing about which streets they happened on.
The comparison is easier to see with both figures side by side. Wargrave's rate is about 34 crimes per 1,000 residents. Wokingham's is about 48. Wokingham isn't a high-crime district to start with, and Wargrave comes in well below it.
The kind of place the numbers come from is part of the answer. The area averages about 1,720 people per square kilometre, which is settled village density, not town-centre crowding. Unemployment is about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. That describes the neighbourhood. It doesn't explain the crime rate, but it helps you picture where the figures come from.
The breakdown needs a caveat before any figure. The totals are low enough that a few incidents move a category's share by several points, so treat what follows as a snapshot of one year, not a lasting feature of the place. Violence and sexual offences make up about 42% of local crime, against about 35% nationally. That category is the largest almost everywhere and covers a wide legal range, including common assault where nobody was injured. Other theft is about 12% locally against 7% nationally. Criminal damage and arson are about 9% against 7%, and vehicle crime about 8% against 5%. Burglary is about 8% against about 4% nationally, which looks worse than it is because burglary is being measured as a share of a small total. Anti-social behaviour runs the other way, at about 8% against 16% nationally. On this snapshot, loud neighbours are less of a problem here than in most places. Break-ins, where they happen, count for more of the total.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how much crime there is, and the answer comes from the force, not from the village. Thames Valley Police charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, and about 37% of cases close with nobody identified. Both are force-wide figures covering a large area, not Wargrave's own. Low crime and a modest charge rate can both be true. Wargrave gives the police relatively little to deal with, and the force's record once a crime is reported is a separate matter.
Safety is one of Wargrave's real strengths. Crime is well below a district that is already fairly quiet, and the mix of offences reflects a small total more than any particular problem.