Yes, and not by a nervous margin. The crime rate here runs at about half the Cornish average. Fifty-two recorded offences across a whole year, in a whole village. Nothing in the numbers supports the idea that a place full of visitors is a place full of trouble. Tintagel is quiet in the way that estate agents claim and the records occasionally confirm.
The published police figures for the twelve months to May 2026 record 52 crimes in the area, giving a rate of roughly 35 per thousand people. That rate sits about 53% below the average for Cornwall. Both of those are published figures rather than anything worked out here, and they use a statistical population base that is not the same as the village headcount, so the two should not be multiplied together at home.
The comparison is worth seeing in full rather than as a percentage. Cornwall as a whole records around 74 crimes per thousand people. Tintagel records about 35. That is not a rounding difference or a good year, it is a village sitting at half the rate of the county it belongs to.
The texture underneath those numbers is what you would expect from a small coastal parish. Population density averages around 750 people per square kilometre, unemployment sits at about 3%, and roughly 1% of households are overcrowded. Those are descriptions of the place rather than explanations of the crime rate, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling a theory rather than reading a table.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and the answer is less flattering. Devon and Cornwall Police charge a suspect in about 8% of cases, against roughly 12% nationally, which places the force last of the 42 in England and Wales on that measure. Around 26% of cases close with nobody identified at all. None of that describes Tintagel specifically, because charging decisions are made across the whole force area and the data carries no village-level signal. It also says nothing about how safe the place is: the crime rate answers whether something is likely to happen to you, and the charge rate answers what happens afterwards. The honest summary is that very little is likely to happen, and if it does, the odds of anyone being charged for it are worse here than in most of the country.
Safety is the single strongest thing this village has going for it. A rate at half the county average is not a marginal advantage or a statistical accident, it is the sort of number that settles the question before anyone has to argue about it.