Yes, and dully so, which is the highest compliment this section can pay. Fifty-two recorded offences across a whole year. A rate roughly half the Cornwall average. A village of a few hundred households where the main nocturnal disturbance is the wind doing something unhelpful to a halyard. Whatever keeps people awake here, it is not crime.
Police recorded 52 offences in the area over the twelve months to May 2026, which works out at a published rate of about 35 per 1,000 residents. That sits roughly 53% below the Cornwall average. Both of those are published figures rather than anything calculated here, and the rate uses a statistical population base of its own rather than the village headcount, so there is no point checking one against the other on the back of an envelope.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Cornwall as a whole records about 74 offences per 1,000 residents. Flushing records about 35. Same county, same police force, same funding, less than half the crime.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would guess from standing on the quay. Population density runs at roughly 380 people per square kilometre, which is village spacing rather than town spacing. Unemployment sits under 1%. Around 1% of households are overcrowded. None of those things causes the crime rate to be what it is, but together they describe a place with very few people, very little pressure on housing, and not much passing through after dark. A village where everyone can identify everyone else's car is not a promising environment for opportunists.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and the answer is less flattering. Devon and Cornwall Police, the force covering this area, charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against roughly 12% nationally, which places it 42nd of the 42 forces in England and Wales. In about 26% of cases the investigation closed with nobody identified at all. That is a force-wide figure reflecting force-wide decisions, not a measure of this village, and it answers a different question from the crime rate entirely: how likely something is to happen to you, and what follows if it does, are not the same statistic. If your car is broken into in Flushing, the odds of it happening are low and the odds of anyone being charged for it are also low.
Safety is the best thing about this place by a wide margin. Half the county rate in a village where the last recorded drama involved a failed lead mine going bust in 1858: the numbers and the atmosphere agree with each other completely, which is rarer than it sounds.