Yes, comfortably. Crime here runs at roughly half the rate recorded across the wider county. Reported violence takes a large share of the local total, which sounds worse than it is and is true almost everywhere in England. Burglary takes a slightly bigger slice than it does nationally, which is the countryside's standing charge for having outbuildings and distance. The place is safe. The numbers just have to be read in the right order.
Police.uk recorded 656 crimes across the Somerton area in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 47 offences per 1,000 people. That figure sits roughly 49% below the local-authority average. Both are published figures rather than anything worked out here, and the rate uses its own statistical population base, so dividing the count by the number of residents will not reproduce it.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Somerset as a whole recorded about 93 crimes per 1,000 people over the same twelve months. Somerton's area recorded about 47. That is the difference between a county figure that includes its towns and cities, and a market town with a ring of villages around it where the busiest thing on a Tuesday night is the road home.
The texture behind those numbers is unremarkable in the way that low-crime places usually are. Across the area's neighbourhoods, population density averages about 1,770 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 2%, and roughly 1% of households are overcrowded. None of that causes anything on its own, and no honest reading of crime data works backwards from a demographic profile. It is simply what a settled, low-turnover area looks like on paper.
On what actually gets reported, violence and sexual offences make up about 49% of recorded crime here against about 35% across England and Wales. That category is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault where nobody is injured, and it is the largest category in nearly every place in the country, so a share on its own is close to meaningless. Anti-social behaviour accounts for about 11% locally against about 16% nationally. Public order at about 8% against 7%, other theft at about 7% against 7%, and criminal damage and arson at about 7% against 7% are all effectively level with the national picture. Burglary is the one that genuinely runs above, at about 6% here against about 4% nationally, which is the number a buyer with a detached house, a long drive and a garage full of tools should actually look at.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and the honest answer belongs to the force rather than the town. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charged a suspect in about 11% of cases over the same twelve months, against about 12% nationally, which places it 24th of the 42 forces. About 30% of cases were closed with no suspect identified at all. That is a statement about investigation and resourcing across a whole police force area, not a measure of how safe any particular street is, and the two should never be blended into one impression. It does mean that anyone picturing a detective attending a shed break-in should adjust their expectations to something closer to a crime reference number.
Safety is the strongest thing this area has, and it is not a close contest. Somerton is the kind of place where the crime statistics are the part of the survey nobody bothers reading twice, and where the sensible precaution is a decent lock on the outbuilding rather than a rethink of the whole purchase.