Yes, and undramatically so. Recorded crime sits below the county average. Almost nobody here is out of work. Almost nobody is living in an overcrowded home. Safe is not the same as nothing ever happening, though, and the burglary numbers are where that distinction earns its keep.
Wiltshire Police recorded 571 crimes across the town in the year to May 2026, which works out as a published rate of about 55 per thousand residents. That sits roughly 12% below the local-authority average. Both of those are published figures rather than anything worked out here, and the rate uses its own statistical population base, so dividing one by the other at home will give you a different and wrong answer.
For the comparison in full: Wiltshire as a whole ran at about 62 per thousand over the same twelve months, against the town's 55. The gap is real but it is not a chasm. Bradford-on-Avon is a quieter-than-average place in a county that is already quiet, which is a less exciting sentence than most people want about where they are moving, and a more accurate one.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would guess from walking around. The built-up parts of the town run at roughly 3,500 people per square kilometre, which is properly town-shaped density rather than village sprawl. Unemployment is about 2%. Overcrowded households come to about 1%. None of that causes the crime rate to be what it is, but it describes the kind of place producing it: settled, employed, and not under much domestic pressure.
The mix is where it gets more interesting than the headline. Violence and sexual offences account for about 35% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally, so the biggest category is sitting exactly where it sits everywhere. That category is a broad statutory grouping covering everything from serious assault to common assault without injury, which is why it tops the list in almost every town in the country. Anti-social behaviour comes to about 18% locally against about 16% nationally, and criminal damage and arson about 9% against about 7%, both close enough to the national shape to be unremarkable. Public order runs about 10% against about 7%. The outlier is burglary, at about 8% of recorded crime here against about 4% nationally, which is the one category where this town's share sits clearly above the national one. A town of detached stone houses with generous gardens and a lot of people out at work is exactly the shopping list a burglar reads, and the share reflects that.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and the answer is less comfortable. Wiltshire Police charged a suspect in about 10% of cases across the twelve months to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, placing the force 32nd out of 42. About 34% of cases closed with nobody identified at all. That is a force-wide figure covering the whole county rather than anything measurable street by street, and it says nothing about how safe this town is. It answers the different question of whether anyone gets caught, and for a third of reports the honest answer is no.
Safety is one of the genuinely good things about living here, and the sort of good that shows up as an absence rather than a feature. Fit a decent lock on the back door, because the burglary share is the one number in this answer worth acting on.