Yes, on the numbers, with the standard coastal-village caveats. The published crime rate ran at about 83 per thousand in the year to March 2026. That figure sits within a percentage point of the wider Isle of Wight authority average. Around 209 incidents were recorded across the village area over those twelve months. The headline is safe-by-island-standards, which is the comparator that matters, because the island is what the village belongs to.
The two figures, the village rate and the authority-wide rate, are best read as level rather than ranked. The population bases under each are not the same, and dividing the count by the resident headcount to second-guess the figure does not give you the published rate back. The proper reading is that the village is neither pulling the island average up nor pulling it down. The 209 incidents cover the period from April 2025 through March 2026 at neighbourhood-area level, in a place of around 2,500 residents with a median age of sixty. The village's police data sits where the village's life sits: roughly on the island line, neither a hotspot nor a sanctuary. What that average looks like in practice depends on the kind of safe you are asking about. If you mean the kind where you can walk back from a winter coastal stroll without checking over your shoulder, the data points that way. If you mean the kind where nothing ever happens to anyone at all, no published data set is ever going to confirm that for any real village, and the buyers who demand it usually end up disappointed in somewhere quieter still.
A safe area, then, in the published-data sense: roughly the local authority average for recorded offences, with no obvious spikes in the volume. Average is the verdict, and average is what most buyers of a small coastal village should reasonably expect to find when they look the numbers up themselves.