Yes, and not in a way anybody will find interesting. Eighty recorded crimes across the whole area in a year. A rate roughly a quarter below the surrounding district's. Almost nobody out of work, almost nobody living in an overcrowded home. Safe here is not a sales line, it is a description of a place where the most threatening thing on a Tuesday night is the weather arriving off the moor.
Police recorded 80 crimes across the area in the twelve months to May 2026, which works out as a published rate of about 46 offences per 1,000 people. That rate is calculated on the statistical area's own population base rather than the resident headcount, so it is the number worth quoting, and not one anybody should try to reconstruct from the count. Against the wider authority it sits roughly a quarter lower.
Both figures side by side: about 46 per 1,000 here, about 61 per 1,000 across Teignbridge as a whole, over the same twelve months. Two published rates for the same window is the only version of this comparison worth anything, and it is the version that flatters the town.
The texture behind the numbers is unremarkable in the best sense of the word. Population density across the neighbourhood measured averages about 859 people per square kilometre, which is tighter than the moorland setting suggests, because the housing sits packed into a small granite grid while the fields outside do the spreading out. Unemployment is around 1% and about 2% of households are overcrowded. None of that is offered as an explanation for the crime rate, because it is not one. It is what the place looks like underneath.
What happens after somebody reports something is a different question, and a considerably less comfortable one. Devon and Cornwall Police, the force covering this area, charged a suspect in about 8% of recorded cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, which places it 42nd out of the 42 forces. About 26% of cases were closed with nobody identified at all. That is a force-wide figure with no street-level signal in it, and it measures something other than safety: not the odds of something happening to you, but the odds of anything happening to whoever did it.
On the question actually asked, this is about as reassuring as the answer ever gets. The quiet is real, the published numbers agree with the impression the place gives, and the only sour note in the file belongs to the force's clear-up paperwork rather than to the streets themselves.