Martock is safe, and safe by a distance rather than by rounding. Recorded crime runs well below the county rate. The whole year's offence tally fits inside three digits. Unemployment barely registers and overcrowded homes are close to nonexistent. Whatever keeps you awake here, it will not be the neighbours.
The published neighbourhood rate is about 50 recorded offences per 1,000 residents over the twelve months to May 2026, built on 392 recorded crimes across that year. Both are published figures rather than sums done here, and the rate uses its own statistical population base, so dividing one by the other at home will give you a different answer and a worse one. What it does not tell you is where in the village anything happened, and anyone claiming otherwise from a national crime map is reading pins, not evidence.
For scale, the same measure puts Somerset as a whole at about 93 recorded offences per 1,000 residents over the same period. Martock sits a long way under its own county, which is a harder test than sitting under a national average, because Somerset is not exactly a byword for lawlessness to begin with.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would guess from a village on the Levels. Average population density across the area's neighbourhoods runs at about 1,530 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 1%, and about 1% of households are overcrowded. None of that causes anything on its own, and none of it should be read as a mechanism. It is simply the shape of a place with space, work and room indoors.
The mix of what gets recorded comes with a warning attached, because with 392 crimes spread across 12 categories a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points. On that basis, violence and sexual offences account for about 52% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, though that heading is a broad statutory grouping covering everything up to and including common assault without injury, so a high share of it is not the same as a high level of danger. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 12% against about 16% nationally, other theft at about 10% against 7%, criminal damage and arson at about 8% against 7%, and public order at about 6% against 7%. Most of those sit close to the national shares. None of it is a settled characteristic of the village, and next year's split could look different without anything real having changed.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how much crime there is, and it is answered force-wide rather than street by street. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charged a suspect in about 11% of cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, which places it 24th of 42 forces. About 30% of cases closed with no suspect identified at all. That is the honest answer to whether they will catch whoever did it, and it applies across the whole force area rather than describing anything about Martock specifically.
Safety is the single strongest thing this village has going for it: a rate well under its own county's, in a place where the notable statistic is how thin the record is.