Yes, about as safe as the rest of Wokingham, which is a safe borough. Crime runs a little above the borough average. The gap is small. Anti-social behaviour is less common than in most of the country. Winnersh isn't dangerous. It's ordinary, in a borough where the standard is set high.
In the year to May 2026, Winnersh recorded about 51 crimes per 1,000 residents. That's roughly 8% above the Wokingham average, from 558 recorded crimes over the twelve months. Those are the published figures, and they come from police records for the local statistical areas, not from a headcount of the village. Eight per cent sounds like a lot until you see what it's a percentage of.
The Wokingham rate over the same year was about 48 crimes per 1,000 residents. So the comparison is 51 against 48. Across the whole borough, that's a gap of about three crimes per thousand people, which rounds to very little.
Winnersh is built up for a place that calls itself a village, at an average of about 4,200 people per square kilometre across its neighbourhoods. Unemployment was about 3% at the 2021 Census, and only about 2% of households were overcrowded. It's a dense, employed, uncrowded suburb. The things that usually come with high crime rates are mostly missing here.
Violence and sexual offences make up about 40% of recorded crime in Winnersh, against about 35% across England and Wales. It's the largest category almost everywhere, and it covers a wide legal range that includes common assault without injury, so the name makes it sound worse than it is. Shoplifting is about 13% here against 8% nationally. Winnersh has more to shoplift from than most villages. Anti-social behaviour is about 10%, well under the national 16%. Public order offences are about 8% against 7% nationally, other theft about 8% against 7%, and criminal damage and arson 7% in both. Apart from the shops, the mix looks like everywhere else. The noisy neighbour problem is smaller here than in most places.
What happens after a crime is reported is a separate question, and the answer comes from the police force, not from Winnersh. Over the same twelve months, Thames Valley Police charged a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally. That puts the force 37th of 42 in England and Wales. About 37% of cases were closed with no suspect identified. That says nothing about how likely a crime is here. It tells you what your odds are if one happens, and they aren't good.
Winnersh is middling for safety: a little above its borough's crime rate, in a borough where that's no real cause for alarm. Lock the car, keep an eye on the shed, and expect the local talk to be about parking rather than crime.