Yes, about as safe as the rest of Hart, which makes it ordinary rather than remarkable. Crime runs level with the district. Nuisance and vandalism make up more of it than they do nationally. Shoplifting makes up less. The problem in Yateley is more likely to be a smashed fence panel than a smashed front door.
Police records for June 2025 to May 2026 logged 767 crimes in Yateley, at a published rate of about 47 per 1,000 residents. That puts the town about level with its local-authority average. It is not a hotspot and it's not a sanctuary. It's a town getting the amount of crime its district gets, and no more.
The comparison is tight. Yateley's rate is about 47 per 1,000 and the Hart-wide rate is also about 47. Estate agents will still call it "a very safe area", because that is the phrase they reach for when the numbers are dull. Dull is the honest description here, and for a place to live, dull crime numbers are not a complaint.
The neighbourhood itself is not the kind that usually tops crime tables. Density averages about 3,800 people per square kilometre, which is suburban housing with gardens, not tower blocks. Unemployment is about 2%, and about 1% of households are overcrowded. Those figures describe the sort of place Yateley is. They don't explain the crime rate, and they shouldn't be read as doing so.
The mix is where Yateley differs from the national pattern. Violence and sexual offences make up about 37% of recorded crime, close to the national share of about 35%. That category is the largest almost everywhere and covers a broad legal range, including common assault with no injury, so on its own it tells you very little about any one town. The real differences sit further down. Anti-social behaviour accounts for about 23% of local crime against about 16% nationally, and criminal damage and arson about 12% against about 7%. Shoplifting runs at about 6% against a national 8%, other theft about 5% against 7%, and public order about 5% against 7%. Yateley has fewer shops to steal from and more fences to kick.
What happens after a report is a separate question, answered at force level, not town level. Hampshire Constabulary charges a suspect in about 9% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the same June 2025 to May 2026 period. That ranks the force 38th of 42. About 35% of cases close with no suspect identified. None of that measures how safe Yateley is. It measures what happens after something goes wrong, and the honest answer is that it often ends without anyone being charged.
Yateley sits in the middle on safety: no worse than the district around it and no better, with nuisance and damage more of a feature than theft. A buyer won't lose sleep over it, but it isn't the part of the listing that sells the house.