Yes, on the numbers, and by a margin that is not close. Recorded crime here runs below the Cornwall average rather than above it. The neighbourhood is thinly worked, with almost nobody unemployed and overcrowding barely registering. What the figures cannot offer is any promise about what happens after you dial 101. Safe to live in. Less encouraging to be a victim in.
Police.uk recorded 205 crimes across the area in the twelve months to May 2026, which works out at a published rate of about 63 per thousand people, roughly 16% below the local authority average. Those two figures are drawn from different statistical bases rather than being two versions of the same calculation, so the count and the rate should be read side by side rather than checked against each other on the back of an envelope.
For the comparison in full: Cornwall as a whole recorded about 74 crimes per thousand people over the same twelve months, against about 63 here. That is the gap doing the work, and it is a real one rather than a rounding artefact.
The texture underneath those numbers is ordinary. Population density across the neighbourhoods measured runs at about 2,600 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 4% of households are overcrowded. None of that explains the crime figure, and nobody should pretend it does. It describes a settled working area with few of the pressures that get blamed for everything else.
The mix needs handling carefully, because 205 crimes spread across 11 categories is a small enough base that a handful of incidents moves a share by whole percentage points. With that firmly in mind: violence and sexual offences account for about 46% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, and that category is a broad statutory grouping that sweeps in common assault without injury, which is why it tops the list in almost every place in the country. Criminal damage and arson runs at about 14% against about 7% nationally. Anti-social behaviour sits at about 13% against about 16% nationally, so slightly below. Public order comes in at about 7% locally and about 7% nationally, which is as close to identical as these things get. Treat all of that as a snapshot of one year rather than a settled characteristic of the village.
Then there is the question people actually want answered, which is what happens after a report goes in. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the same twelve months, against about 12% nationally, and the force ranks 42nd out of 42 forces on that measure. About 26% of cases were closed with no suspect identified at all. Those are force-wide figures covering a very large rural area rather than anything specific to this village, and they answer a different question from the crime rate. A low chance of something happening to you and a low chance of anyone being charged for it are two separate facts, and the second one is the sort of thing an estate agent will never volunteer.
Safety is among the stronger arguments for living here, with the caveat that the reassurance runs out at the point of reporting rather than at the point of risk.