Yes, in the ordinary way that most Cornish market towns are safe. Recorded crime sits a shade below the county average rather than dramatically under it. The area is dense by rural standards and quiet by urban ones. Unemployment and overcrowding are both low. This is not a place with a problem, and it is not a place that can claim to be remarkable for the absence of one either.
Devon and Cornwall Police recorded 420 crimes across the area in the twelve months to May 2026, which works out at a published rate of about 72 per thousand residents. That rate sits roughly 4% below the Cornwall average. The published rate uses its own statistical population base rather than the resident headcount, so it is the figure to quote and not one to check with a calculator.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a direction of travel. Cornwall as a whole ran at about 74 recorded crimes per thousand over the same period, and this area at about 72. That is a small gap, and small gaps between a town and its county tend to say more about how the boundaries were drawn than about how the evenings feel.
The texture behind those numbers is a compact town in open country. Population density averages around 2,855 people per square kilometre across the built-up parts, which is town density rather than village density and explains why the place has streets rather than lanes. Unemployment runs at about 3%, and roughly 2% of households are overcrowded. That is a settled, working population living in houses large enough for the people in them.
On the mix, the categories need reading with some care, because the totals here are low enough that a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points from one year to the next. With that held firmly in mind, violence and sexual offences accounted for about 50% of recorded crime locally against roughly 35% nationally. That category is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury, and it is the largest category almost everywhere in England and Wales, so the headline is less dramatic than the label sounds. Criminal damage and arson came in at about 13% against roughly 7% nationally. Anti-social behaviour ran at about 12% locally against about 16% nationally, and other theft at roughly 7% against 7%, which is as close to identical as these things get. None of it is a settled characteristic of the town. It is one year of counts in a place small enough that the counts move.
What happens after someone reports something is a separate question, and a bleaker one. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the same twelve months, against roughly 12% nationally, which places the force last of the 42 forces in England and Wales on that measure. Around 26% of cases were closed with no suspect identified at all. That is a force-wide figure about how investigations end rather than a statement about this town, and it answers a different question from the crime rate. The two should never be read as one. Plenty of quiet places sit inside forces with poor charge rates, and this is one of them.
Safety here is middling in the most literal sense: a town sitting almost exactly where its county sits, with nothing in the numbers to worry a buyer and nothing in them worth making a noise about either.