Yes, and by a margin that makes the question feel slightly impolite. Recorded crime here runs at roughly half the rate for Somerset as a whole. Five hundred and twenty offences across a full year in a town this size. One category runs hot, and it is the one that involves your house rather than your face. Everything else is the sound of not much happening.
The police.uk figures for the twelve months to May 2026 put recorded crime at around 50 offences per thousand residents, across 520 recorded crimes. That sits roughly 46% below the Somerset average, which is not a marginal difference or a statistical wobble. It is the gap between a place where crime is a topic and a place where it is a subject people bring up because they read something.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Somerset as a whole records around 93 crimes per thousand residents over the same period. Castle Cary records around 50. Both numbers come from the same published series, so this is a like-for-like reading rather than a favourable slice, and the town is on the right side of it by a distance most places would advertise on a sign at the parish boundary.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would guess from a market town surrounded by farmland. Population density averages around 1,200 people per square kilometre across the area's small statistical zones, which is town-shaped rather than city-shaped. Unemployment sits at around 2%. Around 1% of households are classed as overcrowded. None of that causes the crime rate, but it does describe the kind of place producing it: settled, low-churn, and not under any particular pressure.
The mix is where the answer stops being uniformly comfortable. Violence and sexual offences account for around 44% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, though that is a broad statutory grouping covering everything from serious offences to common assault without injury, and it is the largest category almost everywhere in England and Wales. Anti-social behaviour runs at around 10% here against about 16% nationally, so noticeably less of the mix than usual. Public order at around 9% against about 7%, other theft at around 9% against about 7%, and criminal damage and arson at around 8% against about 7% are all close enough to the national shares to be unremarkable. Burglary is the outlier: around 9% of recorded crime here against about 4% nationally. In a town with this few offences overall, that share represents a small number of incidents, but it is the one line on the sheet that behaves differently from the rest.
What happens after a report is a different question from how much crime there is, and the two get blended constantly. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the same twelve months to May 2026. That ranks the force 24th out of 42 in England and Wales, which is the definition of the middle. Around 30% of cases are closed with nobody identified at all. These are force-wide figures covering a large area and tell you nothing about any particular street here, but they are the honest answer to the question people actually mean when they ask whether the police will catch anyone.
Safety is comfortably the strongest thing this town has going for it, and the numbers are not close enough to argue with. The only line worth a second look is the burglary share, which is a reminder that quiet and unwatched can look like the same word from the outside.