Yes, to the point where the numbers are almost boring. Recorded crime here runs about a third below the Cornwall average. The whole year's total would be a slow weekend in a city. Nothing about the place produces the conditions people usually mean when they ask this question. If safety is the thing keeping you awake about a move here, you can go back to worrying about the hill.
Over the twelve months to May 2026, police.uk recorded 144 crimes in the area, a published rate of 48 per thousand people. That sits roughly 35% below the Cornwall average. The rate is calculated on a statistical-area population rather than the village headcount, so it is the published figure that matters rather than any sum you could do at home.
The comparison is worth seeing both halves of. Calstock's 48 per thousand sits against 74 per thousand across Cornwall as a whole. Same force, same recording standards, a quarter of the crime.
The texture behind those numbers is not mysterious. This is a low-density area, averaging around 1,045 people per square kilometre across its neighbourhoods, with unemployment at 2% and overcrowded households at 1%. None of that causes anything on its own, and plenty of quiet places record more crime than this. It does describe the kind of area you are buying into: small, settled, and short of the footfall that generates incident reports.
On what the 144 crimes actually were, tread carefully. Violence and sexual offences account for 60% of the local total against 35% nationally, which sounds dramatic until you know two things. It is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury, and it is the largest single category almost everywhere in England and Wales. Criminal damage and arson runs at 11% locally against 7% nationally. Anti-social behaviour sits at 8% here against 16% nationally. Public order at 7% and other theft at 7% both land within a whisker of the national shares. With a total this small, a handful of incidents shifts any of those percentages by several points, so the mix is a snapshot rather than a characteristic of the place.
If something does happen, the honest answer on outcomes is a force-level one. Devon and Cornwall Police charge a suspect in about 8% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which ranks the force 42nd out of 42 in England and Wales over the twelve months to May 2026. Around 26% of cases are closed with no suspect identified. That is a statement about the force covering this area, not about Calstock, and it answers a different question from the crime rate. Low crime and low charge rates can and do sit side by side.
Safety is the least complicated thing about living here, and one of the genuinely strong reasons to. The village records less crime than almost anywhere its size in the county, and the only real caveat is that if something is taken, the odds of anyone being charged for it are not in your favour.