Yes, to the point of dullness. The area records about 28 offences per thousand residents, against roughly 50 across the surrounding district. That is 171 recorded crimes in an entire year. The totals are small enough that one lively fortnight nudges them. Safety here is not a selling point so much as the default setting.
Police-recorded crime published for the Colyton area comes to 171 offences over the twelve months to May 2026, a rate of about 28 per 1,000 residents. That rate is published as it stands, calculated on statistical-area populations rather than on the headcount used elsewhere on this page, so anyone dividing the count by the local population at the kitchen table will get a different and worse answer than the official one.
East Devon as a whole ran at about 50 recorded offences per 1,000 over the same twelve months. Both numbers come published rather than calculated here, and the distance between them is the whole of the answer.
The texture behind those figures is what anyone would expect of this sort of country. Population density across the area's neighbourhoods averages around 1,330 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 1% of households count as overcrowded. Those describe the place rather than explain the crime rate, and anyone drawing a straight line from one to the other is selling a theory rather than reporting a fact.
The mix needs handling with tongs. Violence and sexual offences account for about 57% of the recorded total here against about 35% nationally, which reads alarmingly until you know that it is the broadest statutory grouping in the count, covering common assault without injury, and that it is the largest single category almost everywhere in the country. Other theft is about 11% locally against about 7% nationally. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 8% here against about 16% nationally. Public order is about 7% in both. Criminal damage and arson sit at about 6% locally against about 7% nationally, and burglary at about 5% against about 4%, which is to say much the same. With 171 crimes spread across 11 categories, a handful of incidents moves any of those shares by several points, so this is one year's arithmetic rather than a settled trait of the town.
What happens after a report is a separate question, decided force-wide rather than street by street. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the same twelve months, against about 12% across England and Wales, which puts the force 42nd of 42 on that measure. In about 26% of cases the file closed with nobody identified at all. That is the honest answer to whether they catch them, and it has no bearing on how likely you are to be the one calling.
Very little else on this page performs like the crime figures do. Whatever else you are weighing up about this valley, the odds of something happening to you in it are not the part that should keep you awake.