Yes, and comfortably so. Recorded crime here runs roughly two-fifths below the surrounding council area. Around 460 offences in a whole year, across the whole village. The council area it sits inside records close to double the rate. A hilltop village that empties out towards Bath every morning was never going to trouble the crime figures, and it does not.
The police.uk figures put the recorded crime rate at about 53 per 1,000 people in the year to May 2026, from 464 recorded offences over those twelve months. That sits roughly 42% below the Bath and North East Somerset average. Both of those are published figures rather than sums worked out here, which matters because the rate is built on a different population base from the resident headcount and dividing one by the other gives you a number that means nothing.
The comparison is worth seeing whole rather than as a percentage. Bath and North East Somerset recorded about 90 crimes per 1,000 people over the same twelve months. Peasedown St John recorded about 53. The city inside that boundary does a great deal of the work in the higher figure, and this village is one of the places quietly pulling the average the other way.
The texture behind those numbers is unremarkable in the way that usually accompanies low crime. Population density across the built-up parts averages about 3,800 people per square kilometre, so this is a village in name and a fairly compact one in practice. Unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. None of those figures explains the crime rate on its own, and anyone claiming otherwise is guessing.
The category split needs handling carefully, because 464 offences spread across 12 categories is a small enough base that a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points. With that firmly in mind: violence and sexual offences account for about 44% locally against about 35% nationally, a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury and comes out largest almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour is about 14% here against about 16% nationally, criminal damage and arson about 9% against 7%, public order about 9% against 7%, and shoplifting about 8% against 8%, which is as close to identical as these things get. That mix is a snapshot of one year, not a personality trait of the village.
What happens after a report is a separate question and a force-level one. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charged a suspect in about 11% of cases over the same twelve months, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 24th out of 42 forces. About 30% of cases were closed with no suspect identified. Those numbers describe how the force performs across its whole patch, not how this village behaves, and they answer the question of whether anyone gets caught rather than the question of whether anything happens to you.
Safety is the strongest thing this village has, and it is strong without any qualifying clause attached. Nothing on the record suggests you would spend a single evening here thinking about it.