No, not by the standards of its own district. Recorded crime runs about a quarter above the Mid Devon average. Unemployment is low. Overcrowding is low. This is a market town carrying a town's crime figures in a county made mostly of villages, and villages are what it gets measured against.
Police recorded 883 crimes here in the year to May 2026, a published rate of roughly 75 offences per thousand people, about 24% above the Mid Devon average. Both are published figures worked out on the statistical population base the crime record uses. Anyone reaching for a calculator to check the rate against the resident count will get a different answer and a misplaced sense of having caught somebody out.
The comparison is easier to judge with both numbers in front of you. Cullompton sits at about 75 recorded offences per thousand people. Mid Devon as a whole sits at about 60. A district average out here is mostly farmland, and farmland has an excellent record.
As texture rather than explanation, the neighbourhoods that make up the town average around 4,590 people per square kilometre, which is town density rather than village density. Unemployment runs at about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. None of that is offered as a cause of anything. It describes a compact working town where people live close together and nearly all of them have jobs.
On categories, violence and sexual offences accounted for about 44% of recorded crime against about 35% across England and Wales. That heading is far broader than it sounds, running from serious assault down to common assault without injury, and it leads the table almost everywhere, which is why quoting it on its own makes any town in the country sound like a warzone. Anti-social behaviour came in at about 14% against 16% nationally and other theft at about 6% against 7%, both a little under the national share. Shoplifting ran at about 10% against 8%, criminal damage and arson at about 8% against 7%, and public order at about 5% against 7%. Most of the mix sits within a few points of the national pattern.
What happens after a report is a separate question with a bleaker answer. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the same twelve months, against about 12% nationally, which places the force 42nd out of 42. About 26% of cases were closed with no suspect identified at all. That is a force-wide figure covering an area far larger than this town, and it measures the response rather than the risk, but 42nd out of 42 is not a ranking that improves with framing.
Safety is the weak spot here. The numbers put this town above its own district rather than in some different category of place, but it is the one dimension where Cullompton comes off worse than the countryside wrapped around it, and it deserves weighing honestly rather than being talked past on the drive home from a viewing.