Yes, and not narrowly. Recorded crime runs about 65% below the Cornwall average. Fewer than eighty offences in a year, across the entire village. Nobody living in an overcrowded household, and unemployment barely registering. Anyone arriving with a theory about a village going downhill will need to bring their own evidence.
Police recorded 77 crimes in Sticker over the twelve months to May 2026, which the published figures express as a rate of about 26 offences per thousand people. That sits roughly 65% below the Cornwall average. Both are published figures for the area rather than sums done on the village population, which rests on a different statistical base and would produce a confident wrong answer. There is no breakdown by offence type behind them, so anyone who tells you what sort of crime Sticker gets is filling in the blanks with imagination.
The comparison reads better with both halves visible: about 26 offences per thousand people here, against about 74 per thousand across Cornwall as a whole over the same twelve months. That gap is the difference between a village and a county average carrying towns, harbours and everything with a car park attached.
The texture underneath runs the same way. Population density averages about 692 people per square kilometre, which is houses with fields behind them rather than street after street. Unemployment sits at about 2%. Overcrowded households come in at 0%. None of that is offered as the cause of the crime figure, because nothing here proves a cause, but it does describe the sort of place the figure comes from: small, settled, and quiet by construction rather than by effort.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and it gets answered force-wide rather than village by village. Devon and Cornwall Police charged or summonsed a suspect in about 8% of recorded offences over the twelve months to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, which leaves the force bottom of the 42 ranked. About 26% of cases closed with no suspect identified at all. That is not a measure of how safe Sticker is and should never be read as one. Low crime and low charge rates answer different questions, and the one you care about changes the moment something of yours goes missing.
Safety is the strongest card this village holds, by a distance that leaves the other categories arguing over second place. Whatever eventually persuades somebody to move away from Sticker, it will not be the crime figures.