Crime rate in Waverley
5,849 offences were recorded across Waverley in the twelve months to August 2026 - 42.6 per 1,000 residents, against a Surrey average of 70.
Twelve-month trend
Offences recorded each month, Sept 2025 to August 2026.
By offence type
- Violence and sexual offences 16.2 per 1,000 2,228
- Anti-social behaviour 6.8 per 1,000 938
- Public order 3.7 per 1,000 503
- Shoplifting 3.6 per 1,000 490
- Other theft 3.1 per 1,000 432
- Criminal damage and arson 2.8 per 1,000 380
- Burglary 1.9 per 1,000 258
- Vehicle crime 1.6 per 1,000 220
- Other crime 0.9 per 1,000 130
- Drugs 0.9 per 1,000 128
- Possession of weapons 0.3 per 1,000 44
- Theft from the person 0.3 per 1,000 36
- Robbery 0.2 per 1,000 33
- Bicycle theft 0.2 per 1,000 29
Towns in Waverley
Town figures count offences near a town centre rather than across a boundary, so they are not rates and cannot be compared with these.
- Cranleigh
- Farnham
- Godalming
- Haslemere
- Alfold
- Chiddingfold
- Churt
- Dunsfold
- Elstead
- Frensham
- Tilford
- Witley
- Wonersh
How this is worked out
Offences are counted inside Waverley's actual boundary, published by the ONS, rather than within a radius of a town centre. That matters, because it means the number can be divided by the population of exactly the same area - 137,218 residents - to give a rate that is comparable with other boroughs.
Rates are per 1,000 residents over twelve months, the convention the Home Office and ONS use. Recorded crime is not the same as crime committed: changes in reporting and in police recording practice move these figures as well as changes in offending.
Crime data from data.police.uk, boundaries from the ONS Open Geography Portal, population from ONS mid-year estimates via Nomis. All licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.