Yes, and not marginally. Recorded crime runs about a third below the county rate. Burglary sits roughly where the country sits. Violent offences take a bigger share of a noticeably smaller total. The interesting question out here is not whether something happens to you, it is whether anybody is ever charged for it.
The published rate is about 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people over the year to May 2026, built from 574 recorded offences across the area in that period. That rate sits roughly 34% below the Cornwall average. Both numbers come from the police recording rather than from any calculation on this page, and the rate uses a statistical population base rather than the resident headcount, so dividing one by the other at home will give you a different answer and a wrong one.
Set side by side, the comparison is plain: Cornwall as a whole records about 74 crimes per 1,000 people, and this area records about 49. That is the sort of gap that shows up in how people behave rather than in how they talk. It is also the gap that separates a place with a night-time economy from a place with a lane, a junction and a lot of hedge.
The texture behind those numbers is unremarkable in the way that tends to produce them. Population density averages around 346 people per square kilometre, which is rural rather than village-tight. Unemployment runs at about 2%, and overcrowded households at about 2%. None of that causes anything on its own, and stating otherwise would be lazy, but it describes a settled, low-churn, working population living at low density, which is the demographic profile most of the reassuring numbers on this page share.
On the mix of what gets recorded, the share that reads most alarming needs its national twin beside it. Violence and sexual offences account for about 52% of recorded crime here, against about 35% nationally. That category is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury, and it is the largest category almost everywhere, so the honest reading is that it takes an unusually large share of an unusually small total. Criminal damage and arson run at about 11% locally against 7% nationally. Anti-social behaviour goes the other way, at about 9% locally against 16% nationally. Other theft sits at about 8% against 7%, public order is identical at about 7% both locally and nationally, and burglary is effectively the national picture at about 4% against 4%.
What happens after a report is a different question, and a less flattering one. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the year to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, which ranks the force 42nd out of 42 forces in England and Wales. About 26% of cases were closed with no suspect identified. That is a force-wide performance figure and carries no street-level signal about this area, and it measures something entirely separate from how much crime happens. Low crime and low charge rates coexist perfectly comfortably. It does mean that the practical answer to "will they catch them" is more often no than most people assume when they move somewhere quiet.
Safety is the standout dimension here, and it is not a close call: a third below the county rate, with burglary running at the national norm and anti-social behaviour well under it. What the numbers reward is the ordinary caution of locking things, rather than the vigilance of choosing which street to walk down.