Yes, Charfield is a safe village, comfortably safer than the council area around it. Its crime rate is a little over half the area average. Unemployment barely registers. Overcrowding barely registers either. The busiest crime stories in South Gloucestershire are written somewhere else.
Charfield's published crime rate was about 45 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, roughly 45% below the South Gloucestershire average. Across that year police.uk recorded 300 crimes in the area. That is a real number, but a modest one, and it comes from a village where a good share of people work from home, so there is usually someone in to notice a stranger on the drive.
Put the two rates next to each other and the gap is plain: about 45 per 1,000 in Charfield against about 82 per 1,000 for South Gloucestershire as a whole. A buyer who looks up the council area's crime headline is reading a figure the village does very little to produce.
The neighbourhood behind those numbers is settled and comfortable. Postcodes average about 1,880 residents per square kilometre, unemployment was about 1% at the 2021 census, and about 1% of households were overcrowded. None of that explains the crime rate on its own, but it describes a village of owner-occupied family houses with very little pressure on them.
The mix needs handling with care, because 300 crimes is a small enough total that a few incidents either way move a share by several points. Violence and sexual offences made up about 45% of the year's crimes against about 35% nationally, a broad legal category that includes common assault where nobody was injured, and the largest category almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour was about 11%, below the national 16%. Other theft was about 10% against 7%, criminal damage and arson about 8% against 7%, and burglary about 8% against 4%. Other crime was about 6% against 2%. Those shares describe one year in a small village, and a quiet twelve months for one or two households could redraw them completely.
Avon and Somerset Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 24th of 42 forces. It closes about 30% of cases with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures, so Charfield shares them with every town and city the force covers. They tell you what happens after a crime has been reported, which is a separate question from how often one happens, and the answer to the second question is the one that flatters the village.
Charfield is one of the safer places to buy in South Gloucestershire, by a margin wide enough that a run of bad luck would struggle to close it.