Yes, comfortably, and for entirely unglamorous reasons. Recorded crime runs about a fifth below the Somerset average. Just over seven hundred offences across the whole area in a year. Barely anyone here is out of work, and almost nobody lives in an overcrowded home. Safe in the way thinly populated places usually are, which is by arithmetic rather than by virtue.
Over the twelve months to May 2026, police.uk recorded 711 offences across the area, a rate of about 74 per 1,000 residents. That sits roughly 20% below the Somerset average. Both are published rates calculated on statistical-area populations rather than on the resident headcount, so they compare with each other properly and with any sum a reader does at home not at all.
Somerset as a whole recorded about 93 offences per 1,000 residents over the same period, against about 74 here. Seeing both numbers matters more than the phrase "below average" does, because below average is only ever as reassuring as the average it is measured against, and Somerset is not a county anyone lies awake about.
The texture behind those figures is unremarkable in the way that produces unremarkable crime numbers. Population density averages around 780 people per square kilometre, which for this part of Somerset counts as settled rather than isolated. Unemployment runs at about 2%, and overcrowded households at about 2%. None of that produces a crime rate by itself, and plenty of places with an identical profile do worse, but it describes an area where very little is under strain.
On the mix of what actually gets recorded, violence and sexual offences account for about 43% of offences here against about 35% nationally. That category is the largest almost everywhere, and it covers a statutory range wide enough to include common assault where nobody is hurt, so the share carries far less alarm than the label implies. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 12% locally against about 16% nationally, and shoplifting at about 6% against about 8%, both lower than the national pattern. Public order at about 9% against 7%, other theft at about 8% against 7%, and criminal damage and arson at about 8% against 7% are all close enough to the national picture to be worth stating and not worth worrying about.
What happens after a report is a different question with a bleaker answer. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charges a suspect in about 11% of cases, against about 12% nationally, placing it 24th of the 42 forces in England and Wales over the twelve months to May 2026. About 30% of cases close with nobody identified at all. That is a force-wide figure covering everything from Bristol to the Dorset border, so it says nothing about any particular village and nothing about how safe the area is. The crime rate tells you how likely something is to happen. The charge rate tells you how likely anyone is to answer for it, and nearly everywhere in the country the honest answer to the second one is not very.
Safety is among the stronger things this area has going for it, and it is strong in a quiet, unheadline-worthy way that suits the place. The catch is not local: if something does happen, the odds of a charge are the same middling national odds you would face anywhere else.