Yes, and unremarkably so. Recorded crime runs about a quarter below the county rate. The annual total is small enough to read in one sitting. Nothing in the figures points to a village managing a problem quietly. Safe in the way villages usually are, which is to say without a story attached.
Police.uk recorded 368 crimes across the area in the year to May 2026, and the published rate for the same period is about 70 per 1,000 residents. Those two numbers sit alongside each other rather than checking each other, since the rate is calculated on a different population base from the resident count. Both are published figures, and neither carries any street-level detail worth pretending to.
The useful comparison is the county. Somerset as a whole ran at about 93 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same twelve months, against roughly 70 here, which puts this area about 25% below its own local authority. Not a rounding difference, and not the kind of gap that a single quiet quarter produces.
The texture behind that is what you would find written on the postcode anyway. Population density averages about 1,680 people per square kilometre across the area's neighbourhoods, unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 1% of households are overcrowded. None of those figures causes anything, before anyone writes in to say it does. They describe a settled place with room in it and very little churn, which is the sort of place where the crime figures tend to be small and the gossip about them tends not to be.
The mix comes with a health warning attached, so take the warning first. With 368 crimes spread across 12 categories, a handful of incidents moves a share by several points, so this is a snapshot rather than a fixed characteristic of the village. Violence and sexual offences made up 45% of recorded crime locally against 35% nationally, which reads worse than it is: it is the largest category almost everywhere, and it is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault where nobody is hurt. Anti-social behaviour was 17% locally against 16% nationally, which is effectively identical. Criminal damage and arson came in at 12% against 7% nationally, public order at 8% against 7%, burglary at 5% against 4%, and other theft at 4% against 7%.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and a less flattering one. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charged a suspect in about 11% of cases over the year to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, placing the force 24th of the 42 forces in England and Wales. About 30% of cases closed with no suspect identified at all. That is a force-wide figure decided by force-wide resourcing, not a signal about this village, and it answers the question of whether anyone gets caught rather than the question of whether anything happens to you in the first place. The two get blended constantly, usually by people with a point to make.
Safety is the least complicated thing about living here, and comfortably one of the village's real strengths: crime well under the county rate, small absolute numbers, and nothing in the record that a buyer needs to weigh against the asking price.