Yes, and by a wider margin than most places that claim it. The recorded crime rate here sits roughly a quarter below the county average. Three hundred and sixty-seven offences across a full year, in a village where the population is small enough that most of them will have been discussed at length. Cornwall as a whole runs at 74 crimes per thousand people, and this area runs at 55. Safety is the least complicated question you can ask about the place.
The police.uk record for the twelve months to May 2026 gives a rate of about 55 crimes per thousand people, against a Cornwall average of around 74. That is roughly 26% below the local authority, which is a real gap rather than statistical rounding. Both figures are published rates calculated on their own statistical populations, so they compare to each other cleanly and should not be recalculated against the resident headcount, which is a different base entirely.
Seeing both numbers side by side matters more than the word "below". Plenty of places describe themselves as safer than average while sitting a percentage point clear of it. Fifty-five against 74 is the sort of gap a resident would actually notice over a decade, assuming they were paying attention, which in a village of this size they will be.
The neighbourhood texture behind those numbers is unsurprising. Population density averages around 1,410 people per square kilometre, which is village-and-edges rather than town. Unemployment sits at around 2%, and overcrowded households at around 1%. None of that causes anything on its own, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling something, but it does describe the kind of settled, low-churn place these figures usually come from.
The mix is worth handling carefully, because the totals are low enough that a handful of incidents shifts a share by several points. On that basis, violence and sexual offences accounted for about 40% of recorded crime against roughly 35% nationally, which is close, and which in any case is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury. Anti-social behaviour ran at about 22% against 16% nationally. Criminal damage and arson came in at about 15% against 7%. Other theft was about 7% against 7% nationally, public order about 6% against 7%, and vehicle crime about 3% against 5%. Read that as one year's shape rather than a fixed characteristic of the village.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and the answer is less cheerful. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the same twelve months, against about 12% nationally, which places the force 42nd out of 42 forces. In roughly 26% of cases, no suspect was identified at all. That is a force-wide figure covering a very large area and says nothing specific about this village, and it measures something entirely different from the crime rate: not how likely you are to be a victim, but how likely anyone is to answer for it if you are. Low crime and low charge rates coexist perfectly comfortably.
On safety, this is one of the genuinely strong points of living here, and the strength is in the gap rather than the absolute number. What the village cannot promise is that anything much happens after the report goes in.