Yes, and the numbers are not close enough to argue about. Recorded crime here runs well under the district average. The village is small, employment is high and hardly anybody lives on top of anybody else. The one honest caveat is what happens after you report something, which is a different question entirely. On the measure most people mean when they ask, Uffculme is about as quiet as an English village gets without being a field.
The published rate is roughly 38 recorded crimes per thousand residents in the year to May 2026, from 180 recorded offences. That sits about 38% below the Mid Devon average. Both are published figures at their own geography, and the rate is not the count divided by the number of people on the census form: the police use a different population base for statistical areas, so the two never quite reconcile and are not meant to.
Put the comparison side by side and it is plain enough. Mid Devon as a whole records around 60 crimes per thousand residents over the same twelve months. Uffculme records around 38. That is not a rounding difference or a good quarter, and it is the sort of gap that holds up whichever way you slice the year.
The texture behind those numbers is what you would expect. Population density averages around 1,900 people per square kilometre across the built-up part of the village, unemployment sits at about 1%, and roughly 3% of households are overcrowded. None of those things causes a crime figure on its own, and pretending otherwise is how bad area guides get written. They do describe the kind of place this is: small, employed, and not short of room.
On the mix, treat it gently, because 180 offences across a year is a low enough total that four or five incidents move a share by several points. Over that period, violence and sexual offences accounted for roughly 53% of recorded crime here against about 35% across England and Wales. That category is a broad statutory grouping that includes common assault without injury, it is the largest category almost everywhere, and in a village with these totals a small cluster of reports produces exactly that kind of share. Criminal damage and arson came in at around 12% against roughly 7% nationally. Anti-social behaviour was about 12% here against roughly 16% nationally, which is close enough to call the same. None of this is a settled characteristic of Uffculme. It is one year of small numbers.
The less flattering figure is what follows a report, and it belongs to the police force rather than to the village. Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against roughly 12% nationally, which puts the force 42nd out of 42 forces on that measure. Around 26% of cases were closed with no suspect identified at all. That is a force-wide outcome, made in charging decisions far from any particular street, and it says nothing about how likely you are to be a victim here. It says something about what happens if you are.
Safety is one of Uffculme's genuinely strong cards, and the only sensible expectation to adjust is what the system does afterwards rather than what happens on the street.