Yes, and by a margin that does not need arguing about. The recorded crime rate here sits well below the Cornwall average. The village is a few hundred homes on a plateau with four bus stops and a churchyard cross. Nobody is committing opportunist crime somewhere it takes twenty minutes to leave. The honest caveat is that a place this small produces numbers small enough to wobble, which is a statistical problem rather than a safety one.
Police.uk recorded 162 crimes across the area in the year to May 2026, giving a published rate of about 44 per thousand people. That is the figure as published for the statistical areas covering St Buryan, calculated on their own population base rather than on the village's resident count, so it is not something to recompute from the headcount.
For comparison, the rate across Cornwall as a whole over the same period was about 74 per thousand. Two numbers, one obvious gap. The village is materially quieter than the county it belongs to, and the county is not exactly Salford.
The kind of place that produces those figures is visible in the rest of the brief. Population density averages about 124 people per square kilometre, unemployment runs at roughly 2%, and around 1% of households are overcrowded. None of those things causes anything on its own, and this site is not going to pretend otherwise. What they describe is a low-density farming parish where most households have space, work and a car, which is a different environment from a town centre rather than a morally superior one.
The crime mix needs handling carefully, because the totals here are low enough that a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points. On that basis, violence and sexual offences accounted for about 62% of recorded crime against roughly 35% nationally. That category is a broad statutory grouping covering everything from serious offences to common assault without injury, and it is the largest category almost everywhere. In a place recording 162 crimes in a year, a high share of it mostly reflects the near-absence of everything else rather than a violent village. Anti-social behaviour came in at about 10% against roughly 16% nationally, criminal damage and arson at about 9% against roughly 7%, public order at about 6% against roughly 7%, and burglary at about 4% against roughly 4%. Other theft ran at about 3% against roughly 7% nationally. The mix should be read as a snapshot of a small sample, not a settled characteristic of the place.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and the answer is less comfortable. Devon and Cornwall Police charge a suspect in about 8% of cases, against roughly 12% nationally, over the same twelve months, and the force sits 42nd of 42 forces on that measure. Around 26% of cases close with nobody identified at all. Those are force-wide figures, decided across the whole of Devon and Cornwall rather than in this parish, and they measure something different from whether a place is safe. Low crime and a low charge rate can sit side by side, which they do here. Fewer things happen; the ones that do are less likely to end in a charge than they would elsewhere in the country.
Safety is one of the clearest strengths St Buryan has, with recorded crime running at well under half the county rate and nothing in the figures that should give a buyer pause.