Yes, Codicote is a safe place to live by any reasonable measure. Crime runs well below the rest of North Hertfordshire. Hardly anyone is out of work. Hardly any homes are overcrowded. Most crime in the district happens somewhere other than this ridge.
Hertfordshire Constabulary recorded 230 crimes across the Codicote area in the year to May 2026. The published rate is about 47 per 1,000 residents, roughly 30% below the local-authority average. Those 230 are spread across the village, Kimpton and the hamlets in between, so in a year with no serious incident on record, a single stolen trailer could get people talking for a month.
To put the two side by side, the North Hertfordshire rate over the same year was about 67 per 1,000, against Codicote's 47. Buyers moving out from the district's towns will notice the difference.
The neighbourhood itself is calm and comfortable. Averaged across the small census areas that make it up, the Codicote area holds about 1,720 people per square kilometre. Only about 2% of people are unemployed and only about 1% of households are overcrowded. Nobody here is short of work, and nobody is short of space.
The crime mix needs care, because the totals are small enough that a few incidents move the shares by several points. Violence and sexual offences make up about 43% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally. That category covers a wide legal range, including common assault with no injury, and it is the largest almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour accounts for about 19% (16% nationally) and criminal damage and arson about 13% (7%). Burglary is about 8% against 4%. Other theft is lower than the national share, about 4% against 7%, and public order is also about 4% against 7%. A burglary share of 8% from a total of 230 rests on a handful of break-ins, and a year either side could tell a different story. If you want the picture for the exact house, the police.uk crime map shows recorded incidents month by month for the streets around it, and a year of those months is worth more than any single percentage here.
On what happens after a report, Hertfordshire Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 23rd of the 42 forces in England and Wales. About 40% of its cases are closed with no suspect identified. That measures the county force's detective work across Hertfordshire. It tells you nothing about how safe Codicote is, and nobody in the village sets that charge rate.
Safety is the easiest thing to recommend about Codicote. Crime is about a third below the district rate and the village is short on the conditions that usually drive it. Anyone moving here from a town will feel the difference the first time they walk home late.