Yes, and safer than most of Wiltshire. Crime runs about a quarter below the county average. The yearly total is in the hundreds, not the thousands. Hardly anyone is out of work. Rudloe's crime figures are quiet, and they are small.
Police figures put crime in Rudloe at about 45 per 1,000 residents in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, roughly 27% below the Wiltshire average. That rate comes from 336 recorded crimes over the same twelve months. The published rate uses its own statistical population base, so it is the figure to quote, rather than anything worked out at a kitchen table.
Put side by side, the gap is clear. Rudloe sits at about 45 crimes per 1,000 residents and Wiltshire as a whole at about 62. Wiltshire is not a county anyone moves to for excitement in the first place, and Rudloe comes in under its average anyway.
The numbers come from a settled sort of place. Population density averages about 1,300 people per square kilometre across its neighbourhoods, about 1% of residents are unemployed, and about 1% of households are overcrowded. It is a place of houses with room to spare and people with jobs to go to, and the crime figures look like it.
By category, violence and sexual offences make up about 41% of recorded crime, against about 35% nationally. That heading sounds grim and covers a lot of ground, down to common assault without injury, and it is the largest category almost everywhere in England and Wales. Anyone writing a scary summary will lead with it. Anti-social behaviour accounts for about 21% locally against about 16% nationally, criminal damage and arson about 10% against about 7%, and public order about 8% against about 7%. Burglary is about 6% against about 4% nationally, and other theft runs lower than the national share, at about 4% against about 7%. Every one of those shares needs the same caveat: the totals are small enough that a handful of incidents moves a share by several points, so this mix is a snapshot of one year, not a portrait of the village.
What happens after a crime is reported is a separate question from how much crime there is, and the answer is a force-wide one. Wiltshire Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, over the same twelve months. About 34% of the force's cases close with no suspect identified. None of that is specific to Rudloe, since charging decisions are made across the whole force, and it says nothing about the chance of being a victim here. It says that when something does happen, the odds of someone being charged are modest, the same as almost everywhere else.
Rudloe is one of the safer places in Wiltshire to buy a house, and safety is one of its real strengths. The crime is there, but there is not much of it.