Yes, and undramatically so. Recorded crime runs about a quarter below the county average. Unemployment barely registers. Overcrowded homes barely register. The only people who find this surprising are the ones who assumed a village meant zero, and then read a crime map at eleven at night.
The published police figures put the Pimperne area at about 42 recorded crimes per thousand people in the year to May 2026, from 391 offences recorded across the area over those twelve months. Both are published figures rather than anything worked out here, and the rate uses its own statistical population base, so it is not the offence count divided by the people who live here. What it does tell you is that the area is on the quiet side of a quiet county.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a direction of travel. Dorset as a whole recorded about 55 crimes per thousand people over the same twelve months. The Pimperne area recorded about 42, which puts it roughly 24% below its own local authority. That is a real gap rather than a rounding wobble, and it holds across a whole year rather than a lucky quarter.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would find on any working stretch of Dorset chalk. Population density averages about 254 people per square kilometre, which is a statistical way of saying fields. Unemployment sits at about 1% and overcrowded households at about 1%. None of that causes anything on its own, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling a theory rather than reading a table. It is simply the shape of the place: spread out, settled, working.
On what the recorded crime consists of, the categories need their national counterparts beside them or they mislead. Violence and sexual offences account for about 39% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, and that label covers a wide statutory range including common assault without injury, so it heads the list almost everywhere in England and Wales. Anti-social behaviour is about 20% locally against 16% nationally. Criminal damage and arson about 11% against 7%. Shoplifting runs slightly under the national share at about 7% against 8%, and public order slightly under at about 5% against 7%. The heavy caveat is the base: with totals this small, a handful of incidents in one month moves any of those shares by several points. Read the mix as a snapshot with wide margins, not as a settled fact about the character of the place.
What happens after someone reports something is a different question from how much gets reported, and the two get blended constantly. Dorset Police charge a suspect in about 14% of cases against about 12% nationally, which ranks the force twelfth out of 42. About 35% of cases are closed with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures covering the same twelve months, made in offices well away from this village, and they carry no street-level signal at all. They answer the question of whether anyone gets caught, not whether anything happens to you. On the first count the force is slightly better than the national average, which still leaves the honest answer to "will they catch them" sitting at roughly one case in three going nowhere.
Safety is the strongest thing this area has going for it, and it earns that without needing a caveat attached. The crime rate is well below the county's, the categories behind it are ordinary, and the numbers are small enough that any given year is mostly uneventful.