Very. This is a village where the most alarming thing on a Tuesday night is a security light triggered by a cat. Recorded crime runs well below the county rate. Nothing here operates late enough to generate the kind of trouble that fills incident logs. The nearest thing to a hotspot is the road out, and it goes to Taunton.
The published rate is around 60 recorded crimes per thousand people over the twelve months to May 2026, from 242 recorded offences. Both figures come from police.uk's neighbourhood data, and both are published rather than worked out here. That rate sits roughly 35% below the local authority average, which is a real gap rather than a statistical shrug.
Put the two side by side and the difference is obvious. Across Somerset the rate runs to about 93 recorded crimes per thousand people over the same period, against roughly 60 here. Same county, same force, same twelve months, and a third less crime per head in this village than in the area as a whole.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would expect from a planned village in the Quantock foothills. Population density averages around 3,470 people per square kilometre across the built-up parts, unemployment sits at about 2%, and roughly 2% of households are overcrowded. That is a settled, low-turnover, largely owner-occupied sort of place, described rather than diagnosed: none of those figures causes anything on its own, they simply describe the kind of area producing the crime numbers above.
The mix needs a health warning before the numbers, because with 242 offences across a year a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points. On that basis, violence and sexual offences accounted for about 44% of recorded crime here against roughly 35% nationally, a broad statutory grouping that runs from serious assault down to common assault without injury and tops the table almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour came to about 18% against roughly 16% nationally, which is effectively the national picture. Public order sat at about 13% against roughly 7%, criminal damage and arson at about 10% against roughly 7%, and burglary at about 4% against roughly 4%, again barely distinguishable from the national share. Read those as a rough shape on a small base rather than a settled characteristic of the place.
Then there is the question people ask second and care about first, which is what happens after a report. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against roughly 12% nationally, which puts the force 24th out of 42. In about 30% of cases the file closes with no suspect identified at all. That is a force-wide figure covering the twelve months to May 2026, not this village's own, and it answers a different question from the crime rate: how safe you are and how likely someone is to be charged are two separate things, and neither predicts the other.
Safety is the standout here, comfortably the strongest thing this village has going for it. A rate a third below the county, in a place with no night-time economy to speak of and nothing much to walk past after dark.