Yes, and by a comfortable margin. The town records about a fifth less crime for its size than the county around it. Unemployment is low, overcrowding is rare, and there is no late-night economy here doing the work that inflates the numbers elsewhere. The question worth more of your attention is not whether something will happen, but whether anyone would ever be caught for it, and that answer is duller.
Over the twelve months to May 2026, police.uk records 793 crimes in the area, giving a published rate of about 73 offences per 1,000 residents. That sits roughly 21% below the Somerset average. Both figures are published rather than worked out here, and they use different population bases from the resident headcount, so the rate is the number to carry into a comparison with anywhere else.
Putting the two side by side makes it plainer. Somerset as a whole runs at about 93 crimes per 1,000 residents. Wincanton runs at about 73. The gap is real rather than a rounding artefact, and it holds across a full year of records.
The texture behind those numbers is unremarkable in the way that tends to keep them low. Averaged across the town's neighbourhood areas, density comes out around 2,800 people per square kilometre, which sounds urban until you remember the measurement covers the built-up part and not the fields it stops at. Unemployment sits at about 2%. Overcrowded households account for about 2%. None of that causes anything on its own, but it describes a town where most people are housed with room to spare and occupied during the day.
The mix needs handling with care, because the headline category is designed to alarm. Violence and sexual offences make up about 42% of recorded crime here against about 35% across England and Wales. That grouping is a broad statutory one taking in common assault without injury, and it is the largest category almost everywhere, so a share above the national line says less than it appears to. Antisocial behaviour runs at about 11% against 16% nationally, which is the more telling number and points the other way. Other theft comes in at about 10% against 7%. Shoplifting matches the national share at about 8%, and public order and criminal damage sit at about 8% each against roughly 7% nationally, which is close enough to call level.
What happens after a report is a separate matter entirely, decided force-wide rather than street by street. Avon and Somerset Constabulary charged a suspect in about 11% of cases across the same period, against about 12% nationally, which places the force 24th of the 42 in England and Wales. About 30% of cases close with nobody identified at all. That is the honest answer to whether they will catch them, and it has nothing to do with how safe the pavement outside your door is. Two different questions, two different datasets, and blending them is how people end up frightened of the wrong thing.
Safety is the strongest card Wincanton holds. A town this quiet on the numbers gives a buyer very little to weigh against everything else on the list.