Yes, and unusually for a small town, the paperwork agrees with the feeling. The recorded crime rate sits about a fifth below the county average. The entire town logged 463 offences across twelve months. Rural places normally claim to be safe on the strength of nobody bothering to report anything, which is a different thing entirely. Langport is quiet in a way that survives contact with the actual numbers.
Police.uk recorded 463 crimes across Langport in the year to May 2026, giving a published rate of roughly 74 crimes per thousand people. That sits about 20% below the average for Somerset. Both of those are published figures calculated on statistical-area populations rather than something worked out from the town's headcount, which matters because the two do not use the same denominator and casually dividing one by the other produces a number that means nothing.
The comparison is worth seeing whole rather than as a percentage. Somerset as a whole runs at about 93 crimes per thousand people. Langport runs at about 74. Same police force, same county, same year, and a gap of nearly twenty crimes per thousand between the town and the average of the area containing it.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would guess from standing in the middle of it. Population density averages roughly 1,590 people per square kilometre across the built-up area, which sounds briskly urban until you remember that measure counts the houses and not the moor they sit next to. Unemployment runs at about 2%. Overcrowded households make up about 1%. None of that causes anything, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling a theory rather than reading a table. It is simply the shape of a settled, low-churn, mostly owner-occupied town where not much moves.
On what kind of crime, tread carefully, because with a total this small a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points and the mix is not a settled characteristic of the place. Over the same twelve months, violence and sexual offences accounted for about 44% of recorded crime here against roughly 35% across England and Wales, which reads worse than it is: that category is a broad statutory grouping running from common assault without injury upwards, and it tops the list almost everywhere. Shoplifting made up about 15% locally against roughly 8% nationally, which for a town with a working high street is the least surprising line in the table. Anti-social behaviour ran at about 11% against roughly 16% nationally, and public order at about 8% against 7%, close enough to be the same number. Criminal damage and arson came in at about 5% against roughly 7%. Fourteen categories in total, most of them counting in single figures.
Then the question nobody asks until it is their bike. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against roughly 12% nationally, which puts the force 24th out of 42. About 30% of cases are closed with no suspect identified at all. That is a force-wide figure covering a large chunk of the West Country rather than anything specific to these streets, and it answers a completely different question from the crime rate. Low crime and low charge rates coexist perfectly happily, which is annoying but true.
Safety is the strongest thing this town has going for it, and it is not a close contest. On the numbers Langport is one of the quieter places in a county that is already quiet, and a buyer worried about crime here is worrying about the wrong thing.