Yes, and comfortably so. Recorded crime runs about a third below the district average. Around 520 offences across an entire year, spread over the whole area. This is not a place with a bad end of town, it is a place with barely enough town to have an end. Safety is the least complicated thing about living here.
The police.uk neighbourhood figures put recorded crime across the Beaworthy area at about 36 offences per 1,000 residents in the twelve months to May 2026, from 520 recorded crimes in total. Both are published numbers. The rate is built on the statistical-area populations the police use rather than the resident headcount, so anyone recalculating it at home with a different denominator will get a different answer, and theirs will be the wrong one.
The comparison is what makes it land. Torridge as a whole recorded about 55 offences per 1,000 over the same twelve months, against this area's 36, which puts Beaworthy roughly 35% below the district it sits inside. Being a third safer than a rural Devon district is a meaningful margin rather than a rounding quirk.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would guess from the road. Population density averages about 40 people per square kilometre. Unemployment sits at about 1%, and about 2% of households are classed as overcrowded. None of that is offered as a cause of anything, because crime does not work that tidily, but it does describe the kind of place these figures come from. Buyers occasionally read a profile like this and hear the word boring. Boring is the entire product.
The mix is where dashboards mislead people. Violence and sexual offences accounted for about 53% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, which reads as frightening until you know that the category is a broad statutory grouping running from common assault without injury upwards, and that it is the largest single category almost everywhere in England and Wales. A large share of a small total is not the same animal as a large number. Criminal damage and arson came to about 10% locally against about 7% nationally, other theft about 8% against about 7%, burglary about 6% against about 4%, and public order about 6% against about 7%, all close enough to the national pattern to be unremarkable. The genuine outlier runs the other way: anti-social behaviour made up about 9% of crime here against about 16% nationally.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and a less flattering one. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over those same twelve months, against about 12% nationally, which places the force 42nd out of 42 forces on that measure. About 26% of cases were closed with no suspect identified at all. Those are force-wide figures covering an enormous stretch of the south west, not a Beaworthy statistic, and they say nothing about how likely you are to be a victim here. They say a great deal about what to expect if you are. Anyone buying an isolated property should treat the outbuilding locks as their own responsibility rather than the constabulary's.
On the question actually asked, this area is properly, measurably safe, and it does not need any careful framing to look that way. The weakness in the picture sits downstream of the crime rather than in it, and that one belongs to the force rather than to the postcode.