Yes, and not by a small margin. Recorded crime here runs about 60% below the district it belongs to. A full year of offences would fit comfortably on a single sheet of paper. Nothing about the village generates the kind of night that fills an incident log. The question worth asking is not whether something happens, it is what follows when it does.
Police recorded crime, published at neighbourhood level, puts the rate at about 25 offences per 1,000 residents across the twelve months to May 2026, from 62 recorded offences in that window. Both of those are published figures rather than sums worked out here, and the rate is deliberately not the count divided by the village population, because the published rate rests on the statistical-area population behind it. Anyone doing that division at home will get a different answer and the wrong one.
Set against the wider district, Teignbridge records about 61 offences per 1,000 residents. Ipplepen records about 25, roughly 60% below the average of the place it sits inside, and that is a comparison against its own district rather than the country. The village is not quiet relative to a city. It is quiet relative to the rest of Devon's coast-and-market-town belt, which is a harder test.
The texture underneath the number is unremarkable in the best sense. The built-up area averages about 2,100 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 2%, and under 1% of households are overcrowded. None of that causes anything by itself, and treating those figures as an explanation for low crime is the sort of reasoning that gets estate agents into trouble. What they describe is a settled village with very few pressure points, which is a fact about the place rather than a theory about it.
What happens after a report is a force-wide matter and has nothing to do with which lane you live on. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the same twelve months to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, and the force sits 42nd of the 42 in that comparison. In about 26% of cases the file closes with nobody identified at all. That is a measure of what the response looks like, not of how dangerous the village is, and mixing the two would slander a quiet place while excusing a stretched force.
Safety is the outstanding thing about living here, plainly and by the numbers. The trade is that the peace is real and the recovery service behind it is not what it should be, so lock the shed and enjoy an area where almost nothing happens to test either.