Yes, and calmer than the district around it. Crime runs about a fifth below the Rother average. A couple of hundred crimes in a whole year. Unemployment and overcrowding barely register. The weak spot is what happens after a crime, not how often one happens.
Police figures for the year to May 2026 put Westfield's crime rate at about 59 per 1,000 residents, from 206 recorded crimes over those twelve months. That's roughly 20% below the Rother average. For a village sitting on a main road between two towns, that's a better result than the location would suggest.
The Rother rate for the same period was about 73 per 1,000, against Westfield's 59. Neither number is alarming, and the gap between them is real rather than a rounding accident. Anyone moving out from the larger towns in the district will find the numbers moving in their favour.
The neighbourhood itself gives crime little to work with. Unemployment stands at about 2%, and so does overcrowding. The average population density across the village's small census areas is about 1,654 people per square kilometre, which is what a village with gardens looks like on paper. None of that proves anything about crime on its own, but it describes a settled, spread-out place rather than a pressured one.
The mix needs handling carefully, because the totals are low enough that a few incidents can move any share by several points. On those numbers, violence and sexual offences make up about 39% of recorded crime against about 35% nationally, a close match for a category that covers everything up to and including common assault without injury, and which tops the list almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour is about 18% against 16% nationally, public order about 8% against 7%, and other theft about 7%, level with the national share. Burglary is about 3%, slightly under the national 4%. The one that stands out is criminal damage and arson at about 17%, well above the national 7%, though at this scale that could reflect a handful of incidents in one year rather than anything lasting. Treat the mix as a snapshot, not a description of the place.
After a report, the picture is weaker, and that's the force's record, not the village's. Over the same twelve months, Sussex Police charged a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 35th of 42 forces. About 48% of cases were closed with no suspect identified. That doesn't make Westfield less safe, because it measures a different thing, but it's the honest answer to whether someone gets caught.
Safety is one of Westfield's real strengths: the crime level sits comfortably below the district, and the main disappointment is the force-wide follow-up, not the streets themselves.