Yes, and not by a narrow margin. Recorded crime here runs about 44% below the county average. The whole year's tally would fit comfortably on one page. Hardly anybody is out of work and almost nothing is overcrowded. Safe is not a word this village has to argue for.
The police.uk record puts 162 crimes in the area over the year to May 2026, which works out as a published rate of about 52 per 1,000 residents. That is the figure as published on its own statistical population base, not a sum you can reproduce by dividing the crime count by the number of people who live here, because the two use different denominators. What it describes is a village where the police log is short enough that a quiet fortnight is the norm rather than the exception.
For the comparison to mean anything you need the other number beside it. Somerset as a whole ran at about 93 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same twelve months. Bishops Lydeard sits at roughly 52. Both figures cover the same period and come from the same source, and the gap between them is the entire answer to this question.
The texture behind those numbers is unremarkable in the way that tends to produce them. The neighbourhood areas used for the count average roughly 1,950 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 2%, and around 1% of households are overcrowded. None of that causes anything on its own, and a village can be prosperous and still have a bad night. It does mean the ingredients most crime maps light up on are largely absent here.
The mix is worth handling carefully, because 162 incidents across eleven categories is a small base and a handful of reports shifts a share by several points. On that caveat: violence and sexual offences accounted for about 46% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, and that category is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury, which is why it tops the list almost everywhere. Public order came in at about 15% against roughly 7% nationally. Anti-social behaviour ran at about 14% against about 16% nationally, and criminal damage and arson at about 7% against about 7%, both close enough to the national shape to be unremarkable. Read that as one year's snapshot in a small place, not as a settled characteristic of the village.
What happens after a report is a separate question with a separate answer, and it belongs to the force rather than the village. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charged or summonsed a suspect in about 11% of cases over the year to May 2026, against about 12% across England and Wales, placing it 24th of 42 forces. About 30% of cases closed with nobody identified at all. Those are force-wide decisions made across a large and varied area, they say nothing about this particular set of lanes, and they measure something different from how likely you are to be a victim in the first place.
Safety is the strongest thing this village has going for it, and it is not close. If you are the sort of buyer who reads the crime map first, you can stop reading it here and go and worry about the broadband instead.