Yes, and there is no clever caveat waiting at the end of this sentence. Recorded crime here runs about a sixth below the wider county average. That county average is not a high bar being cleared, it is a low one being cleared comfortably. The texture is low density, near-full employment, and almost nobody living in a crowded home. Safe here means unremarkable, which is precisely what people mean when they say safe.
Police.uk recorded 1,100 crimes across this area in the twelve months to May 2026, giving a published rate of about 78 offences per thousand residents. That figure sits roughly 16% below the Somerset average. It is worth saying plainly that the rate is a published statistic calculated against its own statistical population base, not a sum anyone should reproduce by dividing the crime count by the number of people who live here. Those two numbers come from different places and produce different answers, which is how half the arguments in local social media groups get started.
For the comparison in full: Somerset as a whole recorded about 93 offences per thousand residents over the same twelve months, against this area's 78. Both numbers are published, both cover the same period, and the gap between them is the entire answer to the question.
The kind of area that produces those numbers is visible in the rest of the figures. Population density averages roughly 1,400 people per square kilometre, which is village-and-edge-of-town rather than street-after-street. Unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. None of that causes a crime rate on its own, and anyone claiming a neat line from one to the other is selling something. It does describe the setting: houses with space around them, occupied by people who mostly have somewhere to be on a Tuesday morning.
The mix is where the numbers need reading carefully rather than quickly. Violence and sexual offences account for about 40% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally. That category is the largest almost everywhere, because it is a broad statutory grouping that sweeps in common assault without injury alongside far more serious matters, so a bare quotation of it makes any village in England sound like a war zone. Shoplifting is the genuine local outlier at about 15% of offences against about 8% nationally, which says more about where the shops are than about where the houses are. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 12% here against about 16% nationally, so lower than the national pattern. Public order sits at about 9% against about 7%, and criminal damage and arson at about 7% against about 7%, which is to say identical.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and a less comfortable one. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the twelve months to May 2026, which places it 24th of the 42 forces in England and Wales. About 30% of cases close with no suspect ever identified. Those are force-wide figures covering a large and varied area, they carry no street-level signal at all, and they measure something different from the crime rate. A low crime rate tells you how often something happens. A charge rate tells you what the odds are once it has. Anyone hoping the second number will comfort them about the first has misread both.
On safety, this area gives people very little to talk about, which is the highest compliment a set of crime figures can pay. Of everything a buyer weighs up here, it is among the strongest cards in the hand.