Yes. Yorkletts is safer than the council area it belongs to, by a distance. Recorded crime runs at well under half the Canterbury area's rate. Homes are spread out. Hardly anyone is out of work. It's a low-crime village where the car on the drive still deserves a locked door.
Police figures put Yorkletts at about 46 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents in the year from June 2025 to May 2026. That's roughly 60% below the Canterbury local-authority average. There were 163 recorded crimes in the same twelve months. Both are published figures for the statistical areas that cover the village, so treat them as the official count rather than a sum you can check against the resident headcount.
For the comparison, the Canterbury area as a whole sits at about 113 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents over the same year, against about 46 for Yorkletts. The rest of the district has plenty going on. Very little of it makes the trip out here.
The setting helps explain the calm, without claiming to cause it. Density averages about 187 people per square kilometre, which is low enough that the nearest neighbour is a wave across a garden rather than a knock through a party wall. Unemployment sits at about 2%, and about 3% of households are overcrowded. It's the texture of a place where people own their homes, keep their jobs, and would notice a stranger's van within the hour.
The crime mix comes with a warning attached. The totals are small enough that a few incidents move any share by several points, so none of this describes Yorkletts in any settled way. With that caveat, violence and sexual offences make up about 34% of the local total, against about 35% nationally. That's close to the national pattern, and it's a broad legal category that includes common assault without injury. Other theft accounts for about 13%, against about 7% nationally. Anti-social behaviour is about 12%, below the national 16%. Vehicle crime is about 9%, against 5% nationally. Shoplifting is about 8%, level with the national 8%, and criminal damage and arson is about 7%, again level with the national figure. The vehicle and theft shares sit above the national pattern. On a base this small, that's worth locking a car over rather than moving house over.
After a crime is reported, Kent Police charges a suspect in about 16% of cases, against about 12% nationally. That puts the force sixth of 42 in England and Wales on that measure. It is a force-wide figure covering the whole county, not a Yorkletts statistic, and it measures what happens after a report, not how likely one is. About 36% of the force's cases close with no suspect identified, which is the honest answer to anyone who asks whether the police will catch whoever took the strimmer from the shed.
On safety, Yorkletts is one of its strongest points. Crime here is low, and the realistic worry is the car and the shed.