Yes, to the point where the question stops being interesting. Crime here runs at a fraction of the county rate. Fewer than a hundred recorded offences across a whole year. The village is tight-packed on paper and quiet in practice. Whatever should worry a buyer looking at Merriott, this is not it.
The published police neighbourhood figures put the rate at about 38 offences per 1,000 people in the year to May 2026, with 96 offences recorded across that period. Against the Somerset average, that sits roughly 59% below. Both of those are published figures rather than sums done here, and the rate is calculated on a different population base from the resident count, so anyone reaching for a calculator to check the arithmetic is checking the wrong thing. What the published figures do not carry, at this size of place, is any breakdown by offence type or street. Anyone offering a hot-spot map of Merriott is offering a map with nothing on it.
The comparison is worth seeing with both numbers on the table rather than as a percentage floating on its own. Somerset as a whole recorded about 93 offences per 1,000 people over the same twelve months. Merriott recorded about 38. That is not a village shading the average down by a point or two, it is a village occupying a different part of the chart entirely.
The texture behind that is ordinary rather than exotic. Across the neighbourhood areas these statistics use, the population sits at roughly 1,700 people per square kilometre, which is village-tight around the built core rather than scattered across open ground. Unemployment runs at about 1%, and about 1% of households are overcrowded. None of those figures explains the crime rate on its own, and treating any of them as a cause would be inventing a mechanism nobody has measured. They describe the kind of settled, low-churn place this is, and that is all they describe.
The question a low crime rate never answers is what happens after somebody does report something. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charged or summonsed a suspect in about 11% of cases over the year to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, which places the force 24th of 42. Around 30% of cases closed with no suspect identified at all. Those are force-wide outcomes covering a large and varied area, not Merriott's own, and they measure something completely different from how safe a street feels. A quiet village and a middling charge rate sit together without contradiction. One tells you how often something happens, the other tells you your realistic odds if it does, and only the first of those ever makes it onto a window card.
The practical version, for anyone weighing a move: the risk of something happening to you here is low by any comparison the published figures allow, and the resolution odds if it does are the same average odds anyone in the force area lives with. Buying in a quiet village buys down the frequency. It does not buy a better detective.
Safety is the single strongest thing Merriott has going for it, and it is not a close contest with anything else on this page. A village this quiet does not need the crime figures to make its case, but it has them anyway.