Yes, and comfortably so. Pucklechurch records about 53 crimes for every thousand residents each year. That runs roughly 35 percent below the average for South Gloucestershire as a whole. Across the latest twelve months it added up to around 220 recorded incidents in total. For a question that usually earns a hedged answer, the numbers here give a straight one.
Put those figures in context and the picture holds together. The published rate for the wider local authority sits near 80 crimes per thousand residents, and Pucklechurch lands well under it, in the reassuring end of the county rather than the middle of the pack. The gap is not a rounding quirk or a single quiet quarter. It is a steady pattern for a small commuter village that does most of its living behind its own front doors, with no town-centre drinking strip to manufacture the late-night arithmetic that pushes the totals up in busier places. Low-crime villages tend to be low for boring structural reasons, and Pucklechurch is one of them.
A couple of honest caveats keep this off the estate-agent brochure. A rate this low is built on small numbers, so a handful of incidents in one month can make a chart spike without the village actually changing underneath it, which is why an alarming headline about a place this size usually means one bad week rather than a new normal. And a low overall figure describes the village, not your particular street or your particular car left unlocked on the driveway. An average protects nobody who leaves the back door open. The grown-up reading is to treat the low number as a strong starting point and then behave sensibly on top of it, because statistics do not lock doors for you.
None of that dents the verdict. By any ordinary reading of the figures, Pucklechurch is a genuinely safe place to live, sitting well below its county average and clear of the sort of crime that keeps people checking the locks at night. If safety is near the top of the list, the data here is firmly on your side.