Yes, to the point where the numbers start to look like a typo. The recorded crime rate runs at roughly a third of the wider district's. Fifty-seven offences were recorded across the whole village in a year. Unemployment barely registers and overcrowding is close to nonexistent. If a place can be too quiet, this is the paperwork that proves it.
Police recorded crime in the village at about 22 offences per thousand residents in the twelve months to May 2026, which is roughly 65% below the Teignbridge average. The volume behind that rate is 57 recorded offences over the same year. Both figures are published as they stand rather than worked out here, and the rate is calculated on a statistical population base rather than by dividing the count by the number of people who live in the parish. What the published data does not carry is any breakdown of what those offences were, so anybody telling you the village's crime is mostly one particular thing is guessing.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Teignbridge as a whole recorded about 61 offences per thousand residents over the same twelve months. Bishopsteignton recorded about 22. That gap is not a rounding artefact or a quiet patch in the reporting, and it holds across a full year rather than a convenient quarter.
The texture underneath those numbers is the texture of a settled, low-churn place. Population density averages about 1,127 people per square kilometre across the two statistical areas the village is split into, which sounds urban until you remember those areas stretch well beyond the houses. Unemployment sits at about 1%. Overcrowded households run at under one in a hundred. None of that causes a low crime rate on its own, and anyone claiming a direct line between the three is overselling what the numbers can carry, but it is the profile of a village where most people own the roof, most people are working or retired, and almost nobody is living on top of anybody else.
The less flattering half of the picture is what happens after somebody does report something. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of recorded offences over the twelve months to May 2026, against a national figure of around 12%, which places the force 42nd out of 42 forces on that measure. About 26% of cases were closed with no suspect identified at all. That is a force-wide statistic covering a very large stretch of the country, not a Bishopsteignton number, and it says nothing about how safe the village is: it answers the separate and colder question of what happens next. The honest summary for a resident is that very little happens to you here, and if it does, the odds of anyone being charged are not comforting.
Safety is the standout part of living in this village, with a recorded crime rate sitting far under the district's across a full year and none of the pressures that usually accompany a higher one.