Yes, and by a wider margin than most towns this size manage. Crime here runs about a fifth below the wider authority. Two thirds of households have more than one car and nobody has to think much about walking home. The recorded mix looks broadly like the national one once you read the categories properly. This is a town where the notable thing about the crime numbers is how little there is to say about them.
The published figure is around 71 recorded crimes per thousand residents over the twelve months to May 2026, drawn from police.uk records at neighbourhood level, covering 1,360 recorded offences. That rate sits roughly 21% below the Bath and North East Somerset average. The rate and the count come from different statistical bases and should be read as two published numbers rather than one checking the other.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Bath and North East Somerset as a whole records around 90 crimes per thousand residents. Midsomer Norton records around 71. The authority average is carrying a Georgian tourist city with a night-time economy and a student population, and this town is the part of it that drags the average down rather than up.
The texture behind those numbers is unremarkable in the way that tends to produce unremarkable crime figures. Population density averages around 3,655 people per square kilometre across the built-up parts, which is town rather than city. Unemployment sits at around 2%. Overcrowded households run to around 2%. None of that causes anything on its own, but it describes a settled, low-churn place where most people have somewhere to be in the morning.
On the mix, violence and sexual offences account for around 43% of recorded crime here against around 35% nationally. That category needs reading carefully before anyone panics: it is a broad statutory grouping that sweeps in common assault without injury, and it is the largest single category almost everywhere in England and Wales. Anti-social behaviour runs at around 17% locally against around 16% nationally, criminal damage and arson at around 7% against around 7%, and other theft at around 7% against around 7%, which is to say identical. Public order sits at around 9% against around 7%. Burglary comes in at around 5% against around 4%. Across fourteen categories, the local shape is close to the national shape, on a total that is well below the local average to begin with.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how much crime there is, and the answer is force-wide rather than local. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charged a suspect in around 11% of cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against around 12% nationally, which places it 24th of 42 forces. Around 30% of cases were closed with no suspect identified at all. That is the honest answer to whether anyone gets caught, and it applies across the whole force area rather than telling you anything about this particular town.
Safety is one of the genuinely strong cards Midsomer Norton holds. The numbers are low, the mix is ordinary, and the only real risk is a buyer talking themselves out of a town because it once had coal mines and they assume that means something.