Yes, to the point where the question starts to feel like an insult. Recorded crime here runs at under half the county rate. The whole area logged fewer than two hundred offences in a year. Density is low, unemployment barely registers, and almost nobody lives on top of anybody else. The interesting question in St Agnes is not whether you will be burgled. It is what you are going to do with all that quiet.
The published police figures put the area at about 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to May 2026, built on 188 offences over those twelve months. That sits roughly 56% below the Cornwall average. Both numbers come from the same police.uk publication and use the same small-area basis, so this is a like-for-like gap rather than a statistical flourish.
To put the comparison in plain numbers, Cornwall as a whole records around 74 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same period. St Agnes records 32. That is not a marginal difference or a rounding quirk. It is the sort of gap that shows up in how people behave rather than just in how they feel, and in a county where plenty of coastal places carry a summer spike, it is worth noticing.
The texture behind the numbers is what you would guess from standing in the middle of the village. Population density averages about 1,340 people per square kilometre across the area's small statistical zones, which is village-and-farmland arithmetic rather than town arithmetic. Unemployment runs at roughly 2%, and about 2% of households are classed as overcrowded. None of those figures explains the crime rate on its own, and none of them should be read as doing so. They describe the kind of place this is: small, settled, mostly occupied by people who own the roof over their heads.
On what the 188 offences actually consisted of, treat the shares with care, because at that volume a handful of incidents moves a category by several points. Violence and sexual offences accounted for about 48% locally against roughly 35% nationally, a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury and is the biggest single category almost everywhere. Criminal damage and arson came in around 15% against roughly 7% nationally, and other theft around 12% against 7%. Anti-social behaviour ran at about 6% against 16% nationally, a notably lower share. Public order at 5% and vehicle crime at 4% sit close to the national 7% and 5%. On a base this small, none of that amounts to a settled characteristic of the place.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and a less flattering one. Devon and Cornwall Police charge a suspect in about 8% of cases, against roughly 12% nationally, and the force ranks 42nd out of 42 forces on that measure over the twelve months to May 2026. Around 26% of cases are closed with no suspect identified at all. That is a force-wide figure, made in force-wide decisions, and it says nothing about any particular street in St Agnes. It does answer the question people actually mean when they ask whether anyone will catch them.
Safety is the strongest thing St Agnes has going for it, and it is not close. The crime rate is genuinely low, the gap to the county is wide, and the honest caveat has nothing to do with the village and everything to do with what the force does once a crime has already happened.