Yes, White Waltham is one of the safer places in the borough. Its crime rate is less than two thirds of the borough's. Over a full year, about 70 crimes were recorded here. Most of the parish is fields, and fields don't generate much police work. The bigger worry is less about crime here and more about what happens when it does occur.
Thames Valley Police recorded 69 crimes in White Waltham between June 2025 and May 2026. The published rate for the area is about 40 crimes per 1,000 residents, roughly 42% below the average for Windsor and Maidenhead. The figures cover twelve full months, so one bad week doesn't distort the picture.
The borough-wide rate over the same year was about 69 crimes per 1,000 residents. Set against that, the village's figure of about 40 looks low. Windsor and Maidenhead is not a rough borough, and White Waltham still comes in well under its average.
White Waltham is a sparse, comfortable place. The area averages about 118 residents per square kilometre, unemployment is about 3% and about 2% of households are overcrowded. Those numbers describe a village of large houses with plenty of space between them. They don't explain the crime rate on their own. The parish holds an airfield, a Norman church and a lot of cultivated farmland, and none of those produces much paperwork for the police.
After a crime is reported, the numbers are less comfortable. Thames Valley Police charged a suspect in about 9% of cases over the same year, against about 12% nationally, ranking it 37th of 42 forces. In 37% of cases across the force, nobody was identified at all. Those are force-wide figures covering a large area, so they don't describe White Waltham itself. They answer a different question from the crime rate: how likely the police are to catch someone once a crime has happened. A thief who does find his way down a village lane has fairly good odds of getting away with it, so a good lock and a camera on the drive are worth more here than a sticker in the window.
Safety is one of White Waltham's real strengths, with crime well below an already moderate borough average. The weak point is what happens after a crime, and that is a problem with the force rather than with the village.