Yes. Purton is one of the calmer places in Wiltshire. Its crime rate is well under the county's. Most residents own their homes and have for years. Almost nobody is out of work. The thing buyers are most likely to lose sleep over is the neighbour's hedge.
Police figures for the year from June 2025 to May 2026 put Purton's crime rate at about 37 per 1,000 residents, roughly 41% below the Wiltshire average. That comes from 169 recorded crimes over the twelve months. Both are published figures, calculated on the police's own statistical areas. Some years a single busy weekend can move a small village's figures noticeably, and this doesn't look like one of those years.
Across Wiltshire as a whole, the rate over the same period was about 62 per 1,000. Purton sits at 37. The county includes Swindon's busier streets and several market-town centres on a Saturday night. Purton has none of those.
The village has about 1,800 people per square kilometre on average across its neighbourhoods, which is settled suburban density rather than anything cramped. Unemployment is about 2% and overcrowding about 2%. These describe the kind of place it is, full of long-settled owners in houses with room to spare. They don't explain the crime rate by themselves.
With only 169 crimes over the year, the breakdown by type rests on a small base, where a few incidents can shift a share by several points. Treat it as a snapshot, not a settled trait of the village. Violence and sexual offences made up about 50% of the local total, against about 35% nationally. That category is the biggest almost everywhere, and it covers a wide statutory range down to common assault without injury. At these volumes the gap is a handful of cases, not evidence of a problem. Anti-social behaviour was about 13% here, below the national 16%. Other theft was about 9% against 7%. Public order and criminal damage and arson were each about 8%, against 7% nationally. Other crime made up about 5%, against 2%. Apart from the violence category, the local shares sit close to the national ones.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and it's decided force-wide. Wiltshire Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 32nd of 42 forces. About 34% of its cases close with no suspect identified. None of that is Purton's own figure, and it says nothing about how likely a crime is here in the first place. It's the honest answer to a different question: whether anyone gets caught if something does happen. Across the county, about a third of the time nobody does.
Safety is Purton's real strength. Crime runs far below the county rate, and the village's worst problem is more likely to be a dispute over parking than anything the police would recognise.