Yes, and by a margin that makes the question feel slightly rude. Recorded crime here runs well under half the county rate. The whole year's tally fits comfortably on one page. Almost nobody is out of work and almost nothing is overcrowded. Whatever people move to Lelant worrying about, it should not be this.
Police records show 139 crimes in the area over the twelve months to May 2026, with a published rate of about 32 offences per 1,000 residents. That sits roughly 57% below the Cornwall average. Those are two separately published figures rather than one worked out from the other, since the rate is calculated against a statistical population base rather than the village headcount.
Put the two side by side and the gap is plain. Cornwall as a whole records around 74 offences per 1,000 residents. Lelant records about 32. For a place this close to a major tourist town, that is a genuinely quiet number rather than a technically quiet one.
The texture behind it is what you would find in most low-crime rural addresses. Population density averages around 901 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 2%, and roughly 1% of households are overcrowded. None of that causes the crime figures, and anyone claiming otherwise is doing sociology with a spreadsheet. It does describe the kind of settled, low-churn place these numbers tend to come from.
The category split needs handling carefully, because with 139 crimes across ten categories a handful of incidents swings a share by several points. On that basis, violence and sexual offences make up about 46% of the total against roughly 35% nationally, a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury and is the largest category almost everywhere. Other theft accounts for about 14% against 7% nationally, criminal damage and arson about 10% against 7%. Anti-social behaviour sits at about 14% against 16% nationally, and public order at 6% against 7%, which is to say they are unremarkable. Vehicle crime is about 3% against 5%. Read that as a shape that could shift next year, not as a characteristic of the village.
Reporting something is one thing. Someone answering for it is another. Devon and Cornwall Police charge a suspect in about 8% of cases, against roughly 12% nationally, ranking the force 42nd out of 42 over the same twelve months to May 2026. About 26% of cases close with nobody identified at all. That is a force-wide performance measure rather than anything about this village, and it answers a completely different question from the crime rate: not how likely something is to happen, but how likely anyone is to be held to account when it does. On the first count Lelant does well. On the second, everyone in the force area is in the same boat.
Safety is the strongest thing this place has going for it, and it is not close. A crime rate well under half the county's, in an area with none of the pressures that usually push it the other way, is about as clean a result as the records produce.