Yes, and comfortably so. Crime here runs about a third below the county rate. Under four hundred recorded offences in a year across the whole village. No town centre, no late-night strip, nowhere for trouble to gather after closing time. Illogan is safe in the dull way rather than the gated way, which is the version worth having.
Police.uk recorded 387 crimes across Illogan in the twelve months to May 2026, giving a published rate of about 52 per 1,000 people. That sits roughly 30% below the average for Cornwall as a whole. Both figures are published rates calculated on their own statistical populations, so they compare with each other cleanly, and neither should be checked by dividing a count by the number of residents.
The county comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a direction of travel. Cornwall as a whole runs at about 74 recorded crimes per 1,000 people over the same twelve months, against Illogan's 52. The gap is the difference between a place people pass through and a place people live in.
The texture behind that number is unremarkable in the best sense. Population density averages about 2,440 people per square kilometre across the area's neighbourhoods, which is village-with-estates rather than open countryside. Unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. None of that produces the crime figure by itself, and anyone claiming a causal chain from any of those numbers is guessing, but it does describe an area where most people are housed, working and staying put.
The mix deserves a caution before the numbers. With 387 crimes spread across 14 categories, a handful of incidents moves a share by several points, so this is a snapshot rather than a characteristic of the place. Violence and sexual offences make up about 51% of recorded crime locally, against about 35% across England and Wales. That category is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury and offences reported long after they happened, and it is the largest category almost everywhere, so a high share in a low-volume village says less than the raw comparison implies. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 10% locally against about 16% nationally, criminal damage and arson at about 9% against 7%, other theft at about 8% against 7%, and vehicle crime at about 5% against a national 5%. On most categories Illogan sits close to the national pattern.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and the answer is less flattering. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, which places the force last of the 42 forces in England and Wales on that measure. About 26% of cases closed with no suspect identified at all. These are force-wide figures covering everywhere from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly, not Illogan's own, and they measure investigation outcomes rather than how safe a street is. A low crime rate and a low charge rate are answers to different questions, and blending them produces nonsense in both directions.
Safety is the strongest thing Illogan has, and the number carrying it is not a marginal one. The honest caveat is the second half of the story: very little happens here, and when something does, the odds of anyone being charged for it are the worst in the country.