Yes, and by a margin that leaves little to argue about. Recorded crime here runs a long way under the surrounding district. The volume across a whole year is small enough to read in one sitting. Nothing in the record points to a problem street or a problem hour. Plenty of villages claim to be quiet because nobody has checked; this one holds up when somebody does.
The police.uk figures record 271 crimes in the area in the twelve months to May 2026, giving a published rate of around 44 recorded crimes per thousand residents. That rate is calculated on statistical-area populations rather than by dividing the annual count by the number of people who live here, so take it as published rather than as something to check on the back of an envelope.
The comparison is the part worth holding onto. Teignbridge as a whole records about 61 crimes per thousand residents over the same period, against roughly 44 here, which puts Kingskerswell somewhere near 28% below its own local authority. Being below a district average is common. Being that far below it is not.
The texture behind those numbers is unexciting in the way settled places usually are. Population density averages about 2,520 people per square kilometre across the area, which is village-with-estates rather than open countryside. Unemployment sits at around 2%, and roughly 1% of households are overcrowded. None of that explains the crime figure on its own, and anybody telling you it does is guessing, but it is the profile of a place where most people have somewhere to be in the morning.
On what the recorded crime consists of, the caution has to come before the numbers. With 271 offences spread across thirteen categories, a handful of incidents shifts any share by several points, so this is a snapshot rather than a settled characteristic of the village. Violence and sexual offences make up about 49% of the local total against roughly 35% nationally, a category that sounds far more alarming than it reads: it is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury, and it is the largest category almost everywhere in the country. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 11% locally against roughly 16% nationally. Criminal damage and arson sit at around 9% against 7%, other theft at about 8% against 7%, and public order at roughly 5% against 7%, all of which are close enough to the national pattern to be unremarkable. Burglary at about 6% against roughly 4% nationally is the one worth noting, on a base small enough that the difference is a small number of break-ins rather than a trend.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and a less comfortable one. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against roughly 12% nationally, which ranks the force 42nd out of 42 forces. Around 26% of cases were closed with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures covering a large and largely rural area, not a measure of this village, and they answer a different question from the crime rate. Low crime and low charge rates can and do sit side by side. It means the odds of something happening to you here are good, and the odds of anyone being charged if it does are worse than average.
Safety is the strongest card Kingskerswell holds, and it holds it comfortably rather than narrowly.