Yes, and the margin is not close. Around fifty recorded crimes per thousand residents over a year, against roughly sixty-two across the county. Unemployment barely registers. The place is spread across open chalk downland with more ground than street corners. Safe here is not a sales word, it is just what the count says.
The police.uk record shows 396 crimes across the area in the twelve months to May 2026, which works out as a published rate of about 50 per 1,000 residents, roughly 20% below the local authority average. Both of those are published figures. The rate uses a statistical-area population rather than the resident headcount, so anyone dividing the 396 by the number of people living here will get a different answer and the wrong one.
Set the two side by side and the comparison does not need much narration. Wiltshire as a whole sits at about 62 crimes per 1,000 over the same twelve months. This area sits at about 50. Two numbers, one conclusion, no small print.
The texture behind that is a place with about 1,480 people per square kilometre averaged across its neighbourhoods, unemployment at about 2%, and about 2% of households counted as overcrowded. None of those causes anything on its own, and treating them as an explanation is the sort of shortcut that gets written about places rather than measured in them. They describe the setting: nearly everyone in work, nearly every household with the bedrooms it needs, and a long way between one front door and the next.
The mix of what gets reported comes with a warning attached rather than after it. With 396 offences spread across 13 categories, a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points, so none of this should be read as a fixed characteristic of the place. On that basis, violence and sexual offences make up about 40% of the total against about 35% across England and Wales, and that category is the largest almost everywhere because it covers a wide statutory range including common assault where nobody is hurt. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 18% locally against about 16% nationally. Criminal damage and arson is about 9% against about 7%, and vehicle crime about 7% against about 5%. Small gaps, small numbers, and a quiet quarter would rearrange them.
What happens after a report is a separate question with a less flattering answer. Wiltshire Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases against about 12% nationally, which ranks the force 32nd of 42, and about 34% of cases close with nobody identified at all. That is a force-wide record, not this village's own, and it measures accountability rather than risk. Low crime and a modest charge rate can sit together perfectly comfortably, which is why a good lock still earns its keep in the safest postcode in the county.
Of everything on this page, safety is the part that needs the least defending. The volume is low, the comparison with the rest of Wiltshire is decisive, and the only genuine caveat belongs to the force's clear-up rate rather than to the streets outside.