No, not on the recorded numbers, and the gap is not a rounding error. Crime here runs about seventy percent above the county rate. Public order offences and shoplifting both take a noticeably larger share of the total than they do nationally. A town of around nine thousand people generates an incident count you would expect from somewhere considerably bigger. Whatever spiritual protection the place is famous for, it does not extend to the high street on a Saturday.
Police recorded 1,421 crimes across the area in the year to May 2026, which the published police.uk figures put at a rate of roughly 158 per thousand residents. That rate sits about 70% above the Somerset average. It is a published statistic calculated on its own statistical-area population, not something worked out from the headcount, and it is the single least flattering number attached to this town.
The comparison is worth seeing with both halves in view. Somerset as a whole records about 93 crimes per thousand residents over the same twelve months. Glastonbury records about 158. Same county, same force, same reporting period, and a difference large enough that it survives any amount of arguing about how small towns get counted.
The surrounding texture does not obviously account for it. Population density averages around 2,720 people per square kilometre across the neighbourhoods, unemployment sits at about 3%, and roughly 2% of households are overcrowded. Those are the figures of a settled, moderately comfortable small town rather than anywhere under visible strain. None of them causes crime, and here they do not even correlate with it in the direction people usually expect.
The category mix says more. Violence and sexual offences account for about 34% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, which is effectively the same share, and the category is a broad statutory grouping that stretches from serious offences down to common assault without injury. Anti-social behaviour runs at roughly 19% locally against about 16% nationally. Criminal damage and arson sit at about 7% in both. The two that genuinely stand apart are public order at around 13% against about 7% nationally, and shoplifting at roughly 12% against about 8%. Other theft runs a little below the national share at about 5% against 7%. That combination points at a town centre with shops and pubs in it, not at residential streets.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and it is answered force-wide rather than street by street. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charged a suspect in about 11% of cases over the same twelve months, against roughly 12% nationally, placing it 24th of 42 forces. Around 30% of cases close with no suspect identified at all. That figure describes the force's performance across its whole territory, and it is not a measure of how safe any particular postcode is. It is the honest answer to the different question, which is whether reporting something leads anywhere.
Safety is the weakest thing about Glastonbury, and the numbers are too far apart from the county's to be explained away as a quirk of a small population. The mix suggests the trouble concentrates where the shops and the visitors are rather than where the houses are, but that is a reason to be careful about which street you buy on, not a reason to dismiss the figure.