Yes, and dully so, which is the correct outcome for a safety question. Recorded crime here sits slightly below the wider county rate rather than above it. The biggest category on the chart is the biggest category almost everywhere in England. Nothing in the pattern reads as a market town that has lost its grip. The most alarming thing about Frome's crime profile is how ordinary it is.
Police.uk recorded about 88 crimes per thousand residents across the area in the year to May 2026, from 3,364 offences in total. That published rate is calculated on statistical-area populations rather than the resident headcount used elsewhere on this page, so the two are not meant to be divided into each other. It sits roughly 5% below the local-authority average, which is close enough to the middle to call it typical for Somerset rather than notably better.
The comparison in full numbers: about 88 per thousand here against about 93 per thousand across Somerset as a whole. That is a real gap and a small one. Anyone hoping the countryside comes with a dramatic safety dividend over the county it sits in will be disappointed by both figures.
The texture behind them is a compact town rather than a scattered rural parish. Population density across the area's neighbourhoods averages roughly 4,500 people per square kilometre, which is town density with fields close by rather than open country. Unemployment runs at about 2% and overcrowded households at about 2%. Those are descriptive facts about how the place is built and occupied, not explanations for the crime figures.
On the mix, violence and sexual offences make up about 40% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally. That category is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury, and it is the largest heading almost everywhere in the country, so a bare percentage from it flatters nobody and frightens everybody. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 15% against about 16% nationally, shoplifting at about 9% against 8%, criminal damage and arson at about 8% against 7%, and other theft at about 6% against 7%. Every one of those is within touching distance of the national shape. The one that genuinely stands out is public order at about 10% against about 7% nationally, which is the category that covers the sort of thing that happens outside pubs at closing time in a town with a decent number of them.
What happens after a report is a different question from how much crime there is, and the answer belongs to the force rather than to the town. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charged a suspect in about 11% of cases over the same twelve months, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 24th of the 42 forces in England and Wales. Around 30% of cases were closed with nobody identified at all. That is the honest answer to whether they will catch whoever took your bike, and it has nothing to do with which street you buy on.
Safety is one of the stronger things Frome has going for it, in the quiet way that means you stop thinking about it after a month. The numbers put it just the right side of a county that was never alarming to begin with.