Adelaide

Adelaide scores 94 out of 100 in our composite index, safer than 78% of the cities we score.

The homicide rate is 1.9 per 100,000, about 1.2 times the median for the cities we track, but it is reported for the whole state rather than the city and rests on a different definition than we use elsewhere, so read it as an approximate upper bound. Recorded robbery is 26.2 per 100,000, again a state figure and one we calculated from a raw count and a population. Police records only capture reported incidents, so the true level runs somewhat higher. The US, Canada, and the UK all hold Australia at their lowest advisory level. In a national survey, 90.8% of residents said they feel safe walking alone after dark, which lines up with the low recorded crime, though the survey covers the country rather than Adelaide alone.