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№ 05 / 09 · Crime

Is Feock, Cornwall a safe area?

For anyone buying or renting in Feock, Cornwall.

Yes, and not by a narrow margin. Thirty-four recorded crimes across the whole village in a year. The rate runs roughly seventy percent under the county average. This is the sort of place where an unfamiliar car gets clocked by three people before it has finished parking. Feock is the kind of quiet that people spend a great deal of money buying into, and then complain is too quiet.

The published figures from Police.uk record 34 crimes in the area over the twelve months to May 2026, giving a rate of about 21 per 1,000 residents. That sits roughly 71% below the average for Cornwall as a whole. The brief carries no breakdown by offence type, so anyone telling you what sort of crime it mostly is has made it up. What can be said is the volume, and the volume is small enough that a single busy weekend anywhere else would account for a fair share of the year.

The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Cornwall as a local authority runs at about 74 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents over the same period. Feock runs at about 21. Both are published rates calculated on the same basis, and the gap between them is the whole answer to this question.

The texture behind those numbers is unsurprising. Population density averages around 220 people per square kilometre, which is farmland with houses in it rather than a village with fields nearby. Unemployment sits at around 1% and overcrowding below 1%. None of that causes a low crime rate by itself, and saying otherwise would be lazy. It does describe a settled, low-turnover, low-pressure place where there is very little moving around at night and not many people to move around it.

What happens after a report is a separate question, and a less comfortable one. Devon & Cornwall Police charged or summonsed a suspect in about 8% of cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against roughly 12% nationally, which places the force 42nd of the 42 in England and Wales. In about 26% of cases, the file closes with nobody identified at all. Those are force-wide figures covering everywhere from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly, not a measure of anything happening in Feock, and they answer a completely different question from the crime rate. Low odds of something happening to you. Low odds of anyone being charged if it does.

Safety is the strongest thing on this page by a distance, and it is the one dimension where the numbers need no defending at all.

Check it for your address. These figures describe the wider area, not a single street. For recent crime near a particular address, use the map on police.uk.

Sources: police.uk (Home Office) · ONS Census 2021

Data to March 2026 · Figures checked 19 September 2026 (what this means)