Yes, and by a margin that is not a rounding error. Recorded crime here runs well below the Cornwall average. Unemployment is low and overcrowding barely registers. The place is built-up rather than remote, so this is not the false comfort of a hamlet where nobody lives close enough to burgle anyone. The more interesting question is not whether something happens here, but whether anyone is ever charged for it.
The published crime rate is about 58 offences per 1,000 residents over the twelve months to May 2026, against 275 recorded offences across the whole area in that period. That sits roughly 21% below the local-authority average, which is a real gap rather than statistical noise.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a bare word. Cornwall as a whole recorded about 74 offences per 1,000 over the same twelve months. Threemilestone recorded about 58. Both figures are published on the same basis, and neither is arrived at by dividing an offence count by a resident population, which is the mistake that produces the wildly wrong numbers people post in local groups.
The texture behind those figures is ordinary in the most useful way. Population density averages around 2,925 people per square kilometre across the neighbourhoods here, which is proper built-up housing rather than scattered farms. Unemployment runs at about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. That is a settled, working, low-churn sort of place, which is descriptive rather than explanatory: none of those numbers causes the crime rate, they simply sit alongside it.
The mix needs handling with care, because the totals are low enough that a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points, and one bad month can rearrange the whole table. With that caveat, violence and sexual offences made up about 51% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally. That category sounds worse than it reads: it is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury, and it is the largest category almost everywhere in England and Wales. Public order came in at about 9% against about 7% nationally, other theft at about 9% against about 7%, and criminal damage and arson at about 9% against about 7%, all close enough to the national pattern to be unremarkable. The one that stands out in the other direction is anti-social behaviour, at about 9% here against about 16% nationally. Treat all of this as a snapshot with wide margins, not a settled characteristic of the village.
What happens after a report is a different question entirely, and it is answered by the force rather than by the postcode. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, which places the force 42nd of 42 in England and Wales. In about 26% of cases, the file closed with nobody identified at all. None of that measures how safe this area is, and it should never be blended with the crime rate. It measures the odds of an outcome once something has already gone wrong, and those odds are poor wherever in the two counties you happen to live.
Safety is the clearest thing in Threemilestone's favour, and one of the genuinely strong reasons to buy here. Low recorded crime, well under the county rate, in an area built densely enough that the number actually means something.