Yes, and the numbers are not close. Recorded crime runs about 60% below the county average. Just over a hundred offences in a year, for the whole village. That is a place where the parish noticeboard has more traffic than the incident log. If safety is the thing keeping you awake about a move here, you can put it down.
Police.uk records 105 crimes in Tatworth over the twelve months to May 2026, and a published rate of 38 recorded crimes per thousand residents. That rate sits roughly 59% below the Somerset average. The two figures come from different population bases, so the rate is not the count divided by the number of people living here, and anyone who tries that arithmetic at home will get a different number and believe the wrong thing.
Set side by side, the gap is the point. Somerset as a whole records about 93 crimes per thousand residents over the same twelve months. Tatworth records 38. That is not a village edging quietly under an average, it is a village in a different bracket.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would expect of somewhere with fields at the end of most roads. Across the neighbourhood areas covering the village, population density averages about 1,390 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at 2%, and 1% of households are overcrowded on the Census 2021 measure. None of that causes anything on its own. It describes a settled, low-churn, low-pressure place, which is the sort of description estate agents reach for and then ruin by calling it a lifestyle.
The category breakdown deserves more caution than it usually gets. Violence and sexual offences account for 52% of recorded crime here against 35% across England and Wales, which sounds like a headline until two things are said out loud. First, it is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury, and it is the largest category almost everywhere. Second, with 105 crimes spread across nine categories, three or four incidents move a share by several percentage points. Anti-social behaviour runs at 15% locally against 16% nationally, close enough to call the same. Other theft is 10% against 7%, criminal damage and arson 9% against 7%, public order 6% against 7%, vehicle crime 5% against 5%. On numbers this small the mix is noise wearing a percentage sign, not a characteristic of the place.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and a less flattering one. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases across the whole force, against about 12% nationally, which ranks it 24th of 42 forces over the twelve months to May 2026. In roughly 30% of cases, the file closes with nobody identified. Those are force-wide decisions made across a large county rather than anything measured on a Tatworth lane, and they say nothing about how safe the village is. They answer the different question buyers actually mean when they ask about crime, which is whether anyone gets caught.
Safety is the single strongest thing Tatworth has going for it, and it is not a marginal call. Whatever else you weigh up about moving here, the crime figures are not the column that will decide it.