Yes, and a little safer than the county around it. Crime runs below the Wiltshire average. Almost everyone who wants a job has one. Hardly anyone lives crammed in. It is a town where the local social media group argues about parking more than it argues about crime.
Police recorded 851 crimes here in the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 57 per 1,000 people. That puts the town about 9% below the Wiltshire average. The number isn't zero, and no town's is, but it sits on the right side of the line for a buyer.
Across the whole of Wiltshire, the published rate over the same year was about 62 per 1,000 people, against about 57 here. The gap is modest, and the town is better than the county rather than a different world from it. Anyone selling the place as crime-free is selling a brochure.
The neighbourhoods behind those numbers are settled ones. Population density averages about 4,300 people per square kilometre across the town's streets, the density of semis with gardens rather than tower blocks. Unemployment was about 2% at the 2021 Census, and about 2% of households were overcrowded. That describes the kind of place it is, and none of it explains any single crime.
The mix needs its national comparison. Violence and sexual offences made up about 46% of recorded crime here against about 35% across England and Wales. That is higher than the typical share, and it is also the broadest label police use, covering everything from serious assault down to common assault without injury. A higher share of a smaller total is not the same thing as a violent town, whatever the scarier summary sites like to imply. Anti-social behaviour came to about 18% against 16% nationally, criminal damage and arson about 12% against 7%, and public order about 7% against 7%, which is level. Other theft, at about 5% against 7%, and drugs, at about 3% against 4%, both came in below the national pattern.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and the answer comes from the force, not the town. Over the same twelve months, Wiltshire Police charged a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which ranks it 32nd of 42 forces. About 34% of cases were closed with nobody identified. That says nothing about how often crime happens here, only about how often someone answers for it, and it is the figure worth knowing before you rely on the police to get your bike back.
Safety is one of the town's real strengths. Crime sits a notch below an already quiet county, and the thing most likely to annoy a new resident here is the neighbour's hedge.