Yes, and by a margin wide enough that nobody selling a house here needs to be creative about it. Recorded crime runs close to thirty percent below the county rate. The whole area logged 420 offences across a year. Somerset as a whole runs a good deal higher. Safety is the least complicated thing about Norton Fitzwarren, which is not a sentence that can be written about most places within two miles of a county town.
The published crime figures put the area at about 67 recorded offences per thousand people over the twelve months to May 2026, from 420 recorded crimes in that period, roughly 28% below the Somerset average. Those two numbers are published separately and rest on different population bases, so dividing one by the other at the kitchen table will not reconcile them. Take each as published and move on.
For the comparison in plain terms: Somerset overall sits at about 93 recorded offences per thousand people over the same twelve months, against roughly 67 here. That is the gap doing the work, and it is the kind of gap that survives a bad month rather than depending on one.
The texture underneath is unremarkable in the way that low-crime places usually are. Averaged across its neighbourhood areas the population density comes out around 2,770 people per square kilometre, which reflects the built-up estates rather than the fields around them. Unemployment sits at about 2% and overcrowded households at about 2%. None of that causes anything on its own, and anyone claiming a direct line from one to the other is guessing with a straight face. It simply describes a settled, working, low-churn sort of place.
On what the offences actually are, the caveat comes first: with 420 crimes recorded in a year, a handful of incidents moves any category share by several points, so the mix is a snapshot rather than a personality. With that said, violence and sexual offences account for about 46% locally against about 35% nationally. That heading is a broad statutory grouping that sweeps in common assault without injury, and it is the largest category almost everywhere in England and Wales, so it reads far more alarming than it behaves. Shoplifting comes in around 14% against about 8% nationally. Public order runs about 9% against roughly 7%, close enough to be the same thing. Anti-social behaviour sits at about 9% locally against about 16% nationally, which is one of the few splits pointing clearly downward.
What happens after a report is a separate question from how much happens, and the two should never be stirred together. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charged a suspect in about 11% of cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 24th of the 42 forces. About 30% of cases were closed with no suspect identified at all. That is the honest answer to whether anyone gets caught, it applies force-wide rather than street by street, and it says nothing about whether your car is fine on the drive tonight.
Safety is the single strongest thing this village has going for it. The rate is low, the gap to the county is large, and the only genuinely bad number in the whole picture belongs to a police force covering half of the West Country rather than to anywhere within walking distance.