Yes, in the unglamorous sense that the numbers are ordinary. Recorded crime here sits level with the county around it, neither better nor worse in any way a resident would notice. The area is small-town dense rather than urban. What is worth reading closely is the mix rather than the headline. Average is the accurate word, and average is what most people are actually asking for when they ask this question.
Over the twelve months to May 2026, the published police neighbourhood figures record 1,977 crimes across the area, at a rate of about 94 per 1,000 residents. Both of those are published figures rather than sums worked out here, and the rate uses the statistical population base the police use, which is not the same as the resident headcount on this page. There is no street-level detail behind either number worth reporting, and anyone offering you some is guessing.
The comparison that matters is the one against the surrounding authority, and it is close enough to be dull. Somerset as a whole records about 93 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same twelve months. Highbridge and the villages around it come in at about 94. That is roughly 1% above the county, which is the statistical equivalent of standing still.
The texture behind those numbers is small-town rather than anything else. Population density averages around 2,270 people per square kilometre across the neighbourhood areas, unemployment runs at about 2% and around 2% of households are overcrowded. None of those figures causes anything on its own, and none of them should be read as an explanation. They describe a place where most people are housed adequately and in work, which is context rather than a verdict.
On the mix of what gets recorded, the largest category is violence and sexual offences at about 47% of crimes here, against about 35% across England and Wales. That gap needs handling carefully rather than dramatically. It is a broad statutory grouping that runs from common assault without injury all the way up, it is the biggest category almost everywhere, and a higher share of a modest total is a different thing from a higher volume of serious harm. Below it, anti-social behaviour accounts for about 16% locally against about 16% nationally, public order about 7% against about 7%, criminal damage and arson about 7% against about 7%, and other theft about 7% against about 7%. Those four are effectively national-average. Shoplifting is the one that runs low, at about 3% here against about 8% nationally, which is what happens to a town centre that has lost most of its shops.
Then there is the question people actually mean when they say safe, which is whether anyone gets caught. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, and ranks 24th of 42 forces on that measure over the twelve months to May 2026. About 30% of cases are closed with no suspect identified at all. Those are force-wide figures covering a large area and a lot of policing decisions, not a measurement of this town, and they answer a different question from the crime rate. Reporting something here is not more or less likely to end in a charge than reporting it anywhere else the same force covers.
Safety is the middle of Highbridge's report card, and the middle is where it deserves to be. The rate matches the county, the mix carries one broad category running high and one running low, and nothing in the record suggests a place that behaves differently after dark than it does at lunchtime.