Yes. Colerne is one of the quieter corners of a county that isn't exactly famous for crime. The rate runs at about a third of the Wiltshire figure. Barely anyone is out of work. Nobody is crammed in. The hardest thing to find here is a crime story.
In the year from June 2025 to May 2026, police records put Colerne's crime rate at about 22 per 1,000 people, roughly 66% below the Wiltshire average. That works out to 58 recorded crimes across the whole year. For comparison, a busy town-centre street can clock up that many in a bad month. The numbers are small enough that a single incident is felt, so anyone reading the village's crime map closely should expect it to move around from month to month without meaning much.
For context, the Wiltshire-wide rate over the same period was about 62 crimes per 1,000 people, against Colerne's 22. Wiltshire isn't a high-crime county to begin with, which makes the gap more telling rather than less. Crime happens in the county. It mostly happens somewhere with more pavement.
The neighbourhood behind those numbers is settled. Unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 1% of households are overcrowded. Population density averages roughly 1,500 people per square kilometre across the village's neighbourhoods, which is compact for a village but nothing like a town. None of that explains the crime rate on its own. It does describe a place where most people have somewhere to be in the morning and room to breathe in the evening, and the police don't need a large map to cover it.
The charge rate is a different question from how safe the place is, and it belongs to the force, not the village. Over the same year, Wiltshire Police charged a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which ranks it 32nd of 42 forces. About 34% of cases were closed with no suspect identified. So if your shed does get emptied, low crime doesn't come with a high chance of getting the strimmer back. Lock the shed.
Safety is one of Colerne's clearest strengths. The crime rate is low enough that the more likely worries are the weather and the school run.