Wrecclesham is safe, and the police figures are almost dull about it. Crime runs roughly two-fifths below the borough's rate. The yearly total is in the hundreds, not the thousands. The mix of offences looks much like everywhere else in the country. The bigger threat to your peace here is the school run.
Police figures for the year from June 2025 to May 2026 recorded 374 crimes in Wrecclesham, and the published crime rate works out at about 27 per 1,000 residents. That places the village roughly two-fifths below the Waverley average. For a place with a main road running through it, a busy secondary school and a recreation ground that draws people from across the area, that is a low figure.
The comparison makes more sense with both numbers side by side. Waverley as a whole runs at about 46 crimes per 1,000 residents, against about 27 in Wrecclesham. Waverley is hardly a crime hotspot in the first place, so this is a quiet village sitting inside a quiet borough, which is about as low-drama as the south of England gets.
The neighbourhood behind those numbers is settled and comfortable. Population density averages about 2,240 people per square kilometre, which is suburban rather than rural, because the village runs straight into Farnham's southern edge. Unemployment is about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. These describe the kind of place Wrecclesham is: roomy houses, people in work, and not much pressure on space.
The mix of offences comes with a warning attached. The totals are low enough that a handful of incidents can move a category's share by several points, so none of this should be read as a fixed feature of the village. With that caveat, violence and sexual offences made up about 42% of recorded crime, against about 35% nationally. That category is the largest almost everywhere, and it covers a wide legal range, including common assault where nobody was injured. Anti-social behaviour was about 16%, the same as the national share. Public order offences were about 9% against 7% nationally, other theft about 9% against 7%, and criminal damage and arson about 7%, level with the national 7%. Burglary was about 6%, against 4% nationally. On a base this small, burglary's share is worth one practical response rather than alarm: the locks, lights and an alarm the insurer will ask about anyway.
What happens after a crime is reported is a separate question, and it's answered at force level, not village level. Surrey Police charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally. About 36% of its cases close with no suspect identified. Those figures say nothing about how likely you are to be a victim in Wrecclesham. They say that if something does happen, the odds of someone being charged are close to the national average, which is to say not great anywhere.
Safety is one of Wrecclesham's real strengths. Crime sits well below a borough that is already quiet, and nothing in the figures should put a buyer off.