Street is safe, and what crime it does have is disproportionately people helping themselves in the shops. Crime runs about a third below the Somerset rate. Unemployment is low. Overcrowding is low. Shoplifting takes a bigger share here than it does nationally, which is what happens when a small town builds itself a retail destination and then acts surprised. The residential streets are quiet in a way the headline categories will not tell you.
Over the twelve months to May 2026, police recorded 886 crimes across the area, and the published rate stands at around 63 crimes per thousand residents, roughly 32% below the Somerset average. Those two numbers come from different population bases, so the rate is not the count divided by the number of people living here. Anyone doing that sum at the kitchen table will get a different answer and the wrong impression along with it.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Somerset as a whole records around 93 crimes per thousand residents. Street records around 63. That gap is the entire answer to this question, and it is wide enough that it is not going to reverse itself on a bad quarter.
The texture underneath those numbers is a town rather denser than its own self-description admits. Population density across the area averages around 3,900 people per square kilometre, which is a town figure whatever the parish paperwork says about villages. Unemployment sits at around 2%, and around 2% of households are overcrowded. None of those things causes anything by itself, but together they describe a settled working population living close to each other without living on top of each other.
On what the crimes actually are, violence and sexual offences account for around 45% of recorded crime here against around 35% nationally. That category is the largest almost everywhere and covers a broad statutory range including common assault where nobody is injured, so the bare share alarms far more than it informs. Shoplifting comes in at around 12% locally against around 8% nationally, and public order at around 10% against around 7%. Anti-social behaviour runs the other way, at around 12% locally against around 16% nationally, and criminal damage and arson at around 6% against around 7%, both close enough to the national shares to be worth no comment at all.
What happens after someone reports something is a separate question and deserves a separate answer. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which places it 24th of 42 forces. About 30% of cases are closed with nobody identified at all. Those are force-wide figures for the twelve months to May 2026 rather than Street's own, and they measure the odds of anyone being held to account, not the odds of something happening to you. Ordinary on the first count, well ahead on the second.
Of everything Street has to recommend it, the safety record is the part that needs the least defending. The numbers hold up without a caveat attached, which is more than most towns can say about anything.