Yes, and comfortably so. Recorded crime here runs about a third below the Cornwall average. The annual total for the whole town is small enough to count on a single sheet of paper. The last people to make Fowey genuinely unsafe arrived by boat, and the Crown was licensing the locals to do exactly the same thing back. Whatever anxiety brought you to this question, the published numbers are not going to feed it.
Police.uk records 132 crimes in this area over the twelve months to May 2026, giving a published rate of about 48 per thousand people, roughly 35% below the Cornwall average. Both of those are published figures rather than anything worked out here, and the rate uses a statistical population base that does not match the resident headcount, so dividing one by the other at home will produce a different answer and a worse one.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Fowey sits at about 48 recorded crimes per thousand people. Cornwall as a whole sits at about 74. That is a real gap, and it holds against an authority that includes some genuinely busy towns rather than against a national abstraction.
The kind of place producing those numbers is much what you would expect. Population density averages around 1,300 people per square kilometre, which for a town wedged onto a hillside above an estuary is denser than the Cornish stereotype allows. Unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. None of those figures explains the crime rate, and none of them is offered as a cause. They describe the texture: a small, settled, mostly working population with very little housing pressure.
The mix of what gets recorded needs handling carefully, because 132 offences spread across 10 categories means a handful of incidents can move a share by several points. With that firmly in mind: violence and sexual offences account for about 47% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, which sounds worse than it is, because it is the largest category almost everywhere and covers a wide statutory range including common assault with no injury. Criminal damage and arson sit at about 15% against about 7% nationally. Other theft is about 11% against about 7%. Anti-social behaviour is about 14% locally against about 16% nationally, and burglary is about 4% in both, so on the two categories people most often ask about, Fowey looks like the country. None of this is a settled characteristic of the town. It is one year of small numbers, and it will look different next year.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how safe the place is, and the answer is less comfortable. Devon and Cornwall Police charge a suspect in about 8% of cases against about 12% nationally, which places the force last of the 42 forces in England and Wales on that measure. About 26% of cases are closed with no suspect identified at all. Those are force-wide figures covering everything from Plymouth outwards, they carry no street-level signal, and they say nothing about the risk of anything happening to you in Fowey. They are simply the honest answer to the question people actually mean when they ask whether the police will catch them.
Safety is the strongest thing Fowey has going for it. A rate a third below the county average, in a town where the biggest historical threat to public order was a licensed one, is about as reassuring as a set of crime figures gets.