Yes, by a margin wide enough to make the question feel like a formality. Crime runs at roughly half the Wiltshire average. The whole year's tally, every category included, comes in under a hundred and twenty offences. There is nothing here to draw a crowd, and crowds are what generate the numbers. Safety is the single strongest thing this place has going for it, and it is not close.
Police.uk recorded 119 crimes across the area in the twelve months to May 2026, alongside a published rate of about 29 per thousand residents. Those two figures are published separately and rest on different population bases, so the rate is a number to quote rather than something to reverse-engineer with a calculator. What matters is that both are small in absolute terms. An area can look dramatic in percentage swings while remaining, in practice, a place where very little happens.
The comparison makes it concrete. Wiltshire as a whole records about 62 crimes per thousand residents over the same period, against roughly 29 here, which puts this area around 54 percent below its own authority's average. That is not a rounding difference or a favourable slice of the map. It is the gap between a county containing towns and a corner of it containing lanes.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would expect. Population density across the area's neighbourhoods averages about 1,040 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits near 1 percent, and around 1 percent of households are overcrowded. None of that causes anything by itself, and it would be lazy to claim otherwise. It does describe a settled place with plenty of room in it, which is the sort of description that tends to arrive attached to a low crime figure.
On the mix, the usual caution applies twice over here, because the totals are small enough that a handful of incidents moves a share by several points. Violence and sexual offences account for about 39 percent of recorded crime locally against roughly 35 percent nationally, which is close, and the category is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury. Anti-social behaviour is about 13 percent locally against roughly 16 percent nationally, so slightly below the national pattern. Criminal damage and arson sit at about 13 percent against roughly 7 percent nationally, burglary at about 13 percent against roughly 4 percent, and other theft at about 11 percent against roughly 7 percent. Vehicle crime is around 6 percent against about 5 percent nationally. Read those as this year's arrangement rather than a fixed characteristic of the village.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and one the crime rate does not answer. Wiltshire Police charge a suspect in about 10 percent of cases, against roughly 12 percent nationally, over the same twelve months to May 2026, which ranks the force 32nd of 42. In about 34 percent of cases the file closes with nobody identified. That is a force-wide measure of what follows a crime rather than anything about these particular lanes, and it is the honest answer to whether somebody will be caught if a shed goes missing. The odds are not good, anywhere.
Safety is the one dimension where Redlynch does not need any qualification at all. Very little happens here, the published figures agree, and the only sensible advice is to lock the shed anyway.