Yes, and by a wide margin. Crime runs at well under half the borough's rate. Hardly anyone is out of work. Almost nobody is short of space at home. In West Horsley safe is the normal state of things.
Surrey Police recorded 49 crimes in West Horsley in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 36 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 59% below the average for Guildford Borough. The breakdown by type of crime isn't available, and in a village this size a handful of incidents more or less can move the rate. Even so, the gap is wide enough that a bad month or two wouldn't close it.
For comparison, Guildford Borough as a whole runs at about 87 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same period, against West Horsley's 36. Whatever is pushing the borough's figure up, it's happening in other parts of the borough.
On the 2021 Census, West Horsley averages about 310 people per square kilometre, about 2% of residents are unemployed and about 1% of households are overcrowded. That describes a village with plenty of room and steady work. None of those figures explains the crime rate, and nobody should treat them as if they did. They only show the kind of place the low figure comes from. The best-documented dispute in West Horsley's history is a 1636 court case about tithes, and what it's remembered for is the evidence that someone had been playing cricket in the park.
What happens after a crime is reported depends on the force covering the whole county. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 30th of 42 forces in England and Wales. Across the force, about 36% of cases are closed without a suspect being identified. Those are figures for the whole of Surrey over the year to May 2026, and they measure how cases end, not how often crime happens in West Horsley. The low local rate does the reassuring, and the force's charge rate is middling.
West Horsley is one of the safer places to live in its corner of Surrey. The crime figures are the least of a buyer's worries here.