Yes, and quietly so, in the way rural Wiltshire usually is. The recorded crime rate sits below the county average. The annual total is small enough to count on a spreadsheet without scrolling. There is no town centre here to concentrate a Friday night into. What that means in practice is that the numbers are reassuring and also fragile, because a handful of incidents moves them.
Wiltshire Police recorded about 56 crimes per thousand residents in the area over the twelve months to May 2026, from 170 recorded offences. That published rate sits roughly 10% below the Wiltshire average. The rate and the count come from different bases and should be read as two published figures rather than one checked against the other.
For the comparison in plain numbers, Wiltshire as a whole runs at about 62 recorded crimes per thousand residents over the same period, against roughly 56 here. That is a gap you would call modest rather than dramatic. Tisbury is not a statistical outlier for safety; it is a normal rural corner of a county that is already fairly quiet.
The texture behind those numbers is what a village in the Nadder valley looks like. Population density averages around 1,400 people per square kilometre across the built-up parts, which sounds higher than it feels because the farmland does not count in that figure. Unemployment runs at about 2%. Overcrowded households sit at roughly 2%. None of that causes anything on its own, but it describes the sort of place where most recorded crime is domestic in the geographical sense rather than the public-disorder sense.
On the mix of what gets recorded, the caveat has to come first: with 170 offences in a year, a handful of incidents shifts any category by several points, so this is a snapshot rather than a characteristic of the place. Violence and sexual offences make up about 52% of recorded crime here against about 35% nationally, a category that spans a wide statutory range including common assault without injury and is the largest group almost everywhere. Burglary sits at about 12% locally against roughly 4% nationally, which in a village of isolated properties is the number worth taking seriously. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 9% here against about 16% nationally, and criminal damage and arson at about 8% against roughly 7%, which is effectively the same. Vehicle crime is around 6% locally and 5% nationally. Read the burglary share as a prompt to think about outbuildings and long driveways, not as a crime wave.
What happens after a report is a force-level question rather than a village one. Wiltshire Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which places the force 32nd of 42. About 34% of cases close with no suspect identified. That says nothing about how safe any particular street is, and it does say something about what to expect if a shed gets emptied in February. Insure accordingly and lock things that are worth stealing.
Safety is one of the genuine strengths here: below the county average, low in absolute volume, and lacking the geography that produces concentrated trouble. The one number to hold onto is burglary, which in a place of long lanes and detached houses is the risk that actually applies.