Yes, and not by a narrow margin. Recorded crime runs about two-fifths below what the rest of the county logs. Unemployment barely registers. Almost nobody lives in an overcrowded home. Whatever nervousness a buyer arrives with, the numbers here decline to feed it.
The recorded-crime figures published for these neighbourhoods count 632 offences across the wider area in the twelve months to May 2026, which works out as a published rate of about 56 per thousand residents. That sits roughly 40% below the local-authority average. Both are published figures calculated on statistical-area populations rather than village headcounts, so they are comparable with each other and not with anything worked out on the back of an envelope.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Somerset as a whole records about 93 crimes per thousand residents. This area records about 56. That is the entire safety argument, and it does not need decorating.
The surrounding texture matches. Population density averages about 948 people per square kilometre across the area's neighbourhood units, which in practice means a scattering of villages with a lot of farmland between them. Unemployment stands at about 2%, and roughly 2% of households are overcrowded. None of that causes the crime figures, and anyone who tells a buyer otherwise is selling something. It does describe the kind of place this is: settled, employed, and not under pressure.
The mix is where most safety questions go wrong. Violence and sexual offences make up about 46% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, and that gap sounds far more alarming than it is. The category is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault with no injury, and it is the largest single heading almost everywhere in England and Wales. In a place with a small total, a handful of incidents moves the share several points. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 9% against about 16% nationally, which is unusually low. Other theft sits at about 9% against about 7%, criminal damage and arson at about 8% against about 7%, and public order at about 8% against about 7%. Those are close enough to the national shares to be unremarkable. Burglary is the one that genuinely stands out, at about 8% here against about 4% nationally. Isolated buildings, long approaches, nobody walking past at eleven at night. It is the standard rural trade-off for having a driveway and a view.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and one nobody thinks to ask until they need the answer. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which places it 24th of the 42 forces in England and Wales over the same twelve months to May 2026. In about 30% of cases the investigation closes with no suspect identified at all. Those are force-wide numbers covering a large and varied area, and they carry no signal about any particular village. They also say nothing about how safe a place is. They answer the different and less comfortable question of whether anyone gets caught.
Safety is this area's strongest suit and it is not close. The recorded rate sits a long way below the county, the categories that usually drive anxiety are at or below national shares, and the one genuine exception is the burglary risk that comes attached to every isolated house in rural England.