Yes, and by a wider margin than most villages that claim it. Recorded crime here runs well under the Cornwall average. The whole village produced barely a hundred recorded offences across a year. Cornwall is not a rowdy county to start with, and Lanivet sits comfortably below even that. Whatever you should be checking before buying here, the crime map is not it.
The police.uk record shows 103 crimes in Lanivet over the twelve months to May 2026, which works out as a published rate of about 42 crimes per thousand residents. That is roughly 44% below the Cornwall average. Both are published figures calculated on the statistical areas the police use rather than on the village's own headcount, so they are numbers to read side by side rather than to recalculate at home.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Cornwall as a whole ran at about 74 crimes per thousand residents over the same twelve months. Lanivet came in at about 42. That is not a marginal difference or a rounding artefact, and it holds across a full year rather than a quiet quarter.
The kind of place producing those numbers is exactly what the numbers suggest. Population density averages around 100 people per square kilometre, which is farmland with a village threaded through it. Unemployment sits at about 2%, and around 3% of households are overcrowded on the census measure. None of those figures causes the crime rate, and anyone claiming otherwise is guessing. They do describe a low-density, settled, largely owner-occupied place, which is the sort of geography where recorded crime tends to be thin on the ground.
The category breakdown needs handling carefully. With 103 crimes spread across 10 categories, a few incidents shift any share by several points, so what follows is a snapshot of one year rather than a settled trait of the village. Violence and sexual offences accounted for about 49% of recorded crime locally against about 35% nationally, and that grouping is broad enough to include common assault without injury, which is why it tops the table almost everywhere in England and Wales. Other theft came in at about 17% against roughly 7% nationally. Criminal damage and arson made up about 10% against 7%, and public order about 8% against 7%, which is close enough to the national share to be unremarkable. Anti-social behaviour ran at about 8% locally against roughly 16% nationally, and vehicle crime at about 3% against 5%. On a base this small, treat every one of those as indicative.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how much crime there is, and it is answered at force level rather than village level. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against about 12% nationally. The force ranks 42nd of 42 forces on that measure. About 26% of cases were closed with no suspect identified. None of that says anything about Lanivet specifically, and it should not be blended with the crime rate: one number tells you how often something happens, the other tells you what the criminal justice system does afterwards, and the second is a great deal less encouraging than the first.
Safety is the single strongest thing Lanivet has going for it, and it is strong on the honest measure rather than the reassuring one. The recorded crime rate is well below a county average that was already low, and it stays there across a full year of data.