Yes, and not by a narrow margin. The recorded crime rate here sits well under half the Cornwall average. A hundred and twenty offences across a whole year, in total. What happens after a report is a separate and less flattering story. Quiet here is not an estate agent's adjective, it is a measurement.
Police recorded 120 crimes in Lanner over the twelve months to May 2026, giving a published rate of about 42 offences per thousand people. That figure sits roughly 43% below the average for Cornwall as a whole. It is a published rate built on its own statistical population base rather than a sum anyone should attempt at home with a calculator and the village headcount.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Cornwall as a whole ran at about 74 recorded crimes per thousand people over the same period. Lanner ran at about 42. That is the gap between a county that includes resort towns on a Saturday night and a valley village that does not.
The texture behind those numbers is unremarkable in the way that tends to produce them. Across the area's neighbourhood statistical areas the average population density is around 1,870 people per square kilometre, which reflects a village that is genuinely built up in its middle rather than scattered across fields. Unemployment runs at about 2% and overcrowded households at about 2%. None of those numbers causes anything on their own, but together they describe a settled, working, low-churn sort of place rather than a transient one.
The mix needs handling carefully, because 120 offences is a small enough total that a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points. On that basis, violence and sexual offences accounted for about 58% of recorded crime against roughly 35% nationally, other theft about 13% against roughly 7%, criminal damage and arson about 8% against roughly 7%, public order about 6% against roughly 7%, and drugs about 4% against roughly 4%. Anti-social behaviour came in at about 4% against roughly 16% nationally. The violence category is the largest one almost everywhere and covers a wide statutory range including common assault without injury, so the headline share reads worse than it lives. With a base this small, none of these proportions should be treated as a settled characteristic of the village.
What happens next is where the picture gets less comfortable, and it has nothing to do with Lanner specifically. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against roughly 12% nationally, which places the force 42nd out of 42 forces. In about 26% of cases, the investigation closed with nobody identified. Those are force-wide decisions made across two counties, not a street-level signal, and they answer a different question from the crime rate. Low crime and low charge rates are entirely capable of coexisting, and here they do.
Safety is the single strongest thing Lanner has to offer. Half the county's crime rate is not a statistical quirk in a village this size, it is what the place is actually like to live in.