Yes, and not marginally. Recorded crime runs about a quarter below the district average. Unemployment sits at two percent. Overcrowded households are about as rare. The honest question in a town like this is not whether something happens to you, but whether anybody is ever held to account for it afterwards.
Police.uk recorded 319 crimes across the area in the year to May 2026, which works out as a published rate of 47 per 1,000 residents. That sits roughly 23% below the average for Teignbridge, the wider district this area belongs to. Both of those are published figures rather than anything assembled here, and the rate is calculated against the statistical population used for crime reporting rather than the resident headcount, so the two are not interchangeable.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Teignbridge as a whole recorded about 61 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same twelve months, against 47 here. That is the gap between a district containing sizeable coastal towns and a place where the noisiest thing on most evenings is the road.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would expect. The neighbourhood average works out at roughly 1,360 people per square kilometre, which blends the tight terraced centre with the fields that start a few minutes' walk from it into a single figure that describes neither especially well. Unemployment stands at about 2% and overcrowded households at about 2%. None of that causes the low crime rate, but it is the kind of place the low crime rate belongs to.
The mix needs handling with tongs. With 319 crimes spread across eleven categories, a handful of incidents moves a share by several points, so what follows is a snapshot rather than a characteristic. Violence and sexual offences accounted for about 51% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, and that heading is a broad statutory grouping covering everything from serious assault down to common assault without injury, which is why it tops the table almost everywhere in the country. Criminal damage and arson came to about 10% against about 7% nationally, and other theft about 9% against about 7%. Anti-social behaviour ran the other way at about 9% locally against about 16% nationally. Public order at about 7% and drugs at about 4% are within a point of the national shares, which is the least dramatic and most useful thing on the list.
What happens after a report is a separate question, answered force-wide rather than street by street. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the year to May 2026, against about 12% across England and Wales, which places the force 42nd out of 42. About 26% of cases closed with nobody identified at all. That is not a measure of how safe this town is, and it should never be read as one, but anyone weighing up a move deserves to know that the odds of a resolution are set by the force covering the whole peninsula rather than by the quiet of the street they are standing on.
Safety is the single strongest thing this town has going for it, and the numbers back the reputation rather than merely tolerating it.