Yes, by the ordinary measure, and it is not close enough to make a fuss about. Recorded crime here runs below the wider council area rather than above it. The categories that dominate the local count are the same ones that dominate everywhere else. Nothing in the numbers suggests a town with a problem, and nothing suggests a town with a halo either. Radstock is the kind of safe that nobody writes a local newspaper column about, which is the good kind.
Police recorded 1,211 crimes in the twelve months to May 2026, giving a published rate of about 86 offences per thousand residents. That rate sits roughly 5% below the Bath and North East Somerset average. Both figures are published as they stand, calculated on statistical-area populations rather than on the headcount of people who live in the town, so nobody should try to reproduce them at home with a calculator and get cross when the answer differs.
The comparison is more useful with both numbers in view. The council area as a whole records about 90 offences per thousand residents over that same year, against Radstock's 86. That is a modest gap rather than a chasm. Anyone expecting a former coalfield town to be dragging the county average upwards will have to find their prejudice a different home.
The texture behind those numbers is worth knowing. Population density across the local neighbourhoods averages about 2,940 people per square kilometre, which is what happens when pit housing gets packed onto valley sides in tight terraced rows rather than spread across paddocks. Unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 2% of households count as overcrowded. This is a working town of small houses close together, not a sprawl of cul-de-sacs, and small houses close together mean people notice things.
On the mix, violence and sexual offences account for about 43% of recorded crime here against about 35% across England and Wales. That category is a broad statutory grouping that sweeps in common assault without injury alongside far more serious matters, and it is the largest category in almost every town in the country, so the raw share flatters nobody and frightens everybody. Anti-social behaviour comes next at about 18% locally against about 16% nationally. Criminal damage and arson runs at about 7% here and about 7% nationally, which is as close to identical as these things get. Other theft sits at about 5% locally against about 7% nationally.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and it is answered force-wide rather than street by street. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charged a suspect in about 11% of cases over the same twelve months, against about 12% nationally, which places it 24th of the 42 forces in England and Wales. Roughly 30% of cases closed with no suspect identified at all. Those figures describe the force covering this area rather than the area itself, and they measure the odds of an outcome rather than the odds of something happening to you. Anyone reading them as a safety score is reading the wrong column.
Safety is one of the quieter things Radstock has going for it, sitting below its council area on the published rate without any of the fuss a town usually makes about being pleasant. Whatever a buyer ends up worrying about here, and there will be something, the crime figures are not it.