Yes, and not by a narrow margin. Recorded crime here runs at roughly half the Cornwall rate. The area is thinly populated, unemployment barely registers, and almost nobody lives in an overcrowded home. Whatever keeps you awake at a Cornish harbour in February, the local crime figures are not it.
Over the year to May 2026, police.uk recorded 327 crimes across the area, a published rate of about 38 per 1,000 residents. That sits roughly 49% below the local authority average. Both of those are published figures on their own population bases, which is worth saying because the count and the rate are built from different statistical areas and dividing one by the other produces a number that means nothing.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a phrase. Across Cornwall as a whole, the rate over the same period was about 74 crimes per 1,000 people. Here it was about 38. That is not a rounding difference or a quiet quarter. It is a genuinely different experience of living somewhere.
The texture behind those numbers is unremarkable in the way that tends to produce them. Population density averages about 1,727 people per square kilometre across the neighbourhoods this page covers, unemployment runs at about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. None of that causes anything on its own, and plenty of low-crime places look nothing like this one, but it is the shape of the area a buyer is actually walking around.
The mix needs handling with care, because the totals here are small enough that a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points, and one bad month can rewrite the chart. With that firmly in mind: violence and sexual offences made up about 54% of recorded crime over the period, against about 35% nationally. That category is a broad statutory grouping that runs from the serious down to common assault without injury, and it is the largest category almost everywhere in England and Wales, so a bare quotation of it makes any village sound like a war zone. Criminal damage and arson came in at about 11% against about 7% nationally. Anti-social behaviour was about 11% here against about 16% nationally. Public order was about 8% against about 7%, close enough to call the same. Other theft was about 4% against about 7%, and vehicle crime about 3% against about 5%. On a base this small, treat all of it as a snapshot rather than a settled characteristic of the place.
What happens after a report is a different question from how much crime there is, and the answer belongs to the force rather than the village. Devon and Cornwall Police charges or summonses a suspect in about 8% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which ranks the force 42nd of 42 in England and Wales. About 26% of cases are closed with no suspect identified at all. None of that makes the area less safe. It does mean that if something does happen, the realistic expectation is a crime number and a letter rather than a courtroom.
Safety is the strongest thing this area has going for it, and the figures do not need any help from a sympathetic reading. A rate around half the county's, in a quiet, low-density stretch of coast, is about as clear an answer as a buyer is ever handed.