Yes, and comfortably enough that the question starts to feel like an insult. Recorded crime here runs at roughly half the district's rate. Sixty-one offences in a year, across the entire village. That is not a place with a safety problem. The thing worth knowing is not whether something happens, it is what follows when it does.
Devon and Cornwall Police recorded 61 offences in this area over the twelve months to May 2026, and the published rate for the area is about 25 offences per 1,000 residents, roughly 48% below the South Hams average. Those two figures are published separately and rest on different population bases, so anyone who divides the count by the number of residents to check the arithmetic will arrive at a third number that means nothing at all.
Put the comparison side by side and it does the arguing without help. About 25 offences per 1,000 residents here, against about 49 per 1,000 across South Hams as a whole, over the same twelve months. South Hams is not a district anyone would describe as rough to begin with, and this village sits at half of it.
The texture underneath those numbers is what you would find in most of rural south Devon. Population density averages about 1,280 people per square kilometre across the local statistical area, unemployment sits at about 1%, and about 1% of households are overcrowded. None of that causes the crime rate, and treating it as an explanation is the sort of reasoning that gets people into trouble. It does describe the kind of place where an unfamiliar car parked overnight becomes a subject of general interest by breakfast.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and a less flattering one. Across the force area, Devon and Cornwall Police charged a suspect in about 8% of cases over the twelve months to May 2026, against about 12% nationally, which puts the force 42nd of 42 forces on that measure. About 26% of cases were closed with nobody identified at all. Those are force-wide numbers, decided in an office a long way from these lanes, and they carry no signal about this village specifically. They also measure something completely 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.
Safety is the strongest thing this place has going for it, on the plainest reading of the numbers. The uncomfortable footnote is not the chance of something happening to you here, it is the modest chance of anybody being charged when it does.