Yes, and unremarkably so, which is the answer most people actually want. Recorded crime runs a little under the Cornwall average. Unemployment is low. Overcrowded housing is rare. Safety is not where the argument about this village lives, and the one caution worth raising is about what happens after you report something rather than about what happens on the street.
Police recorded 290 crimes across the area in the twelve months to May 2026, which is a published rate of about 68 per 1,000 residents. Both numbers come straight from the police's neighbourhood publication, and the rate is not the count divided by the people who live here, because the published rate is built on a different statistical population base. The gap to the wider authority is roughly 8% below average, which is a nudge rather than a gulf.
Set the two side by side and it is about 68 per 1,000 in Roche against about 74 per 1,000 across Cornwall as a whole. Close enough that the fair description is slightly better than the county, rather than anything grander.
The texture behind those figures is ordinary. The built-up part of the village runs at about 2,761 people per square kilometre, which reflects where the housing actually sits rather than the fields around it. Unemployment is about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. None of those things produces a crime figure by itself, and nobody should read them that way, but together they describe the kind of place that generates numbers like these: working, settled, not squeezed for space.
The mix comes with a caveat that matters more than any single share in it. Violence and sexual offences made up about 49% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, and that category is the biggest one almost everywhere because it covers a wide statutory range, including common assault where nobody is hurt. Criminal damage and arson came to about 11% against about 7% nationally, other theft about 9% against about 7%, burglary about 5% against about 4%, and public order about 6% against about 7%, which is effectively the national pattern. Anti-social behaviour ran about 10% here against about 16% nationally. Now the caveat: with 290 crimes spread across thirteen categories, a handful of incidents moves a share by several points, so this is one year's snapshot and not a settled feature of the place.
What happens after a report is a different question, and the answer is less comfortable. Devon and Cornwall Police charged or summonsed a suspect in about 8% of cases across the whole force area over the same twelve months, against about 12% nationally, which puts the force 42nd out of 42 forces. About 26% of cases closed with nobody identified at all. Those are force-wide figures rather than Roche's own, and they measure nothing about how safe a street is. They answer the question people ask afterwards, which is whether anyone gets caught, and on current form that happens less often here than in most of the country.
Safety is one of the quieter things Roche has in its favour, with recorded crime sitting a little under a county average that was never high to start with. Be realistic about the follow-up rather than about the risk.