Yes, and not marginally. Crime here runs about two-fifths below the surrounding county. Unemployment is close to nothing. Barely any household is overcrowded. The village is quiet in the way that places full of detached houses and people who work from home tend to be quiet, which is to say quiet enough that a wheelie bin blowing over counts as an incident.
The published crime rate for Almondsbury is about 49 recorded crimes per thousand residents over the twelve months to May 2026, from 236 recorded crimes in total. That sits roughly 41% below the average for the wider local authority. Both figures come from police.uk and are published as they stand, calculated on statistical-area populations rather than the village headcount, which is why the rate and the raw count do not reconcile in any way you could do on the back of an envelope.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. South Gloucestershire as a whole records about 82 crimes per thousand residents over the same period. Almondsbury records about 49. That is a genuine gap rather than a statistical wobble, and it holds across a full twelve months rather than a favourable quarter.
The kind of area producing those numbers is not a mystery. Population density averages around 1,211 people per square kilometre across the village's neighbourhoods, which is suburban rather than urban. Unemployment sits at about 2%. Overcrowded households account for roughly 1%. None of those things causes the crime rate on its own, and treating them as an explanation would be lazy, but together they describe a settled, low-turnover, low-pressure sort of place, and settled low-pressure places tend to generate fewer police reports.
On what the crimes actually are, the mix needs a health warning before the numbers. With 236 crimes across twelve months and twelve categories, a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points, so this is a snapshot rather than a characteristic. Violence and sexual offences accounts for about 50% of recorded crime locally against roughly 35% nationally, and that category is a broad statutory grouping covering everything from serious assault down to common assault without injury, which is why it tops the list nearly everywhere. Public order sits at about 11% locally against roughly 7% nationally. Other theft is around 9% against about 7%. Criminal damage and arson comes in at roughly 8% locally and 7% nationally, which is effectively the same. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 8% locally against roughly 16% nationally, notably lower. Burglary is around 5% against about 4%. Read those as indicative shares of a small total, not as a portrait of the village.
What happens after a report is a separate question and one the crime rate does not answer. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against roughly 12% nationally. That is a force-wide figure covering the whole policing area, not Almondsbury's own, and charging decisions are made at force level rather than street level. The force ranks 24th of 42 forces in England and Wales on that measure. The more useful number for anyone wondering whether their bike comes back: around 30% of cases are closed with no suspect identified at all.
Safety is the single strongest thing Almondsbury has going for it, and the numbers are not close. If you are moving here and worrying about crime, you are worrying about the wrong line on the spreadsheet.