Yes, Backwell is a safe area, and it is not a close call. The published crime rate runs at about 35 crimes per thousand residents. That sits roughly 61 percent below the North Somerset average of around 89 per thousand. Across the whole village over a year, the recorded total comes to a little over 200 offences. For a commuter village this size, that is a genuinely quiet ledger.
The gap between Backwell and its own council area is the number that matters. North Somerset as a whole records something close to 89 crimes per thousand people, and Backwell manages about 35. Being 61 percent under the local average is not a marginal edge, it puts the village in a different tier from the towns around it. The twelve months to spring 2026 produced roughly 215 recorded crimes in total, and because this is a village rather than a town, those are spread thin across the year. The practical effect is a place where a single incident tends to become the conversation of the week, not because Backwell is tense, but because so little usually happens that anything at all stands out.
A note on how to read those figures. The rate is a published statistic built on its own statistical geography, and it is not the same thing as taking the year's crime count and dividing it by the number of people who live here. The two use different population bases and give different answers, so the headline rate is the one to trust rather than any back-of-envelope sum. What it tells you is consistent either way: this is a low-crime area by any measure the official data offers, without a bad street or a rough corner dragging the average up.
On safety Backwell earns full marks, five out of five. It is about as reassuring as the crime data gets in this county, and anyone worried about being burgled or hassled here is worrying about the wrong thing. Buy for the price or the schools or the commute, but do not lose a minute of sleep over whether the area is safe. It is.