Yes, and by more than the average. The published crime rate runs to about 71 offences per thousand people. That sits roughly 12 per cent below the wider South Gloucestershire figure. Across a full year the village logged in the region of a thousand recorded offences. This is a quiet, low-crime commuter village, and the numbers do not argue with the reputation.
Take the rate first, because it is the fair way to compare places of different sizes. At around 71 per thousand, Winterbourne comes in about 12 per cent under the local-authority average of roughly 81. That is the sort of gap that does not make headlines and does not need to. The twelve-month volume, something close to a thousand recorded offences across the year to spring 2026, sounds like a lot until you remember it is spread over a village of several thousand people and a full calendar, and the rate is what puts it in proportion. It is worth holding the two apart: the rate is the published, area-adjusted figure, and it is the one to trust, not a back-of-an-envelope sum of incidents divided by residents, which uses a different population base and will mislead you every time. The steady, below-average result is the real story, and it is a boring one, which for a place you plan to live in is exactly what you want.
Blunt version: this is a safe area, a clear four out of five, the kind of village where the crime figures are the least of your worries and the flood map or the school run will occupy you long before the police statistics do. Buy here for the quiet and you will get the quiet.