Yes, on the numbers, and comfortably so. Recorded crime here runs well under the Cornwall average. The total across a whole year is the sort of figure a single city street can manage on a bank holiday. Nothing about the place generates the conditions people usually blame. The honest summary is that this is a quiet area in a quiet county, and the caveats are about what happens after a report rather than how often one gets made.
Police.uk recorded 563 crimes across the area in the year to May 2026, working out at a published rate of about 61 offences per 1,000 residents. That sits roughly 18% below the Cornwall average. Both numbers are published rates rather than anything worked out here, and they use their own statistical population base, so the rate is the figure to quote and the count is just the volume behind it.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Cornwall as a whole records about 74 offences per 1,000 residents over the same twelve months. This area records about 61. That gap is the entire answer to the question most buyers are actually asking, which is whether the village is the bit of the county that drags the average up. It is not.
The texture behind those numbers is unremarkable in the best way. Population density averages roughly 1,900 people per square kilometre across the area's neighbourhoods, unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. None of that causes anything on its own, and none of it should be read as a formula. It simply describes a settled, working, low-pressure sort of place where most households have enough room and most adults have somewhere to be on a Monday.
The mix needs handling carefully, because the headline share looks worse than the reality. Violence and sexual offences account for about 49% 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 category almost everywhere, so a high share of a low total is not the same thing as a dangerous street. Other theft runs at about 10% locally against about 7% nationally, and criminal damage and arson at about 9% against about 7%. Anti-social behaviour goes the other way, at about 9% locally against about 16% nationally. Shoplifting at about 8% and public order at about 6% both sit close to the national shares, which is to say they are unremarkable.
What happens after a report is a different question, and a less flattering one. Devon and Cornwall Police charges a suspect in about 8% of cases, against about 12% nationally, and the force ranks 42nd out of 42 forces in England and Wales on that measure over the year to May 2026. About 26% of cases close with no suspect identified at all. That is a force-wide statistic, decided across an area running from Land's End to the edge of Somerset, and it says nothing about this village's streets. It does mean that if something does happen to you here, the odds of somebody being charged for it are the weakest in the country.
Safety is one of this area's genuine strengths, provided you separate the two questions: very little happens, and the force that would follow it up has the worst charge record in England and Wales.