Arequipa

Arequipa scores 51 out of 100, safer than only 16% of the cities we score.

The homicide rate is 8.2 per 100,000, about 5 times our median, drawn from the wider municipality and pooled across more than one year rather than a single reference year. Robbery is high at 224.7 per 100,000, a municipality figure we calculated from a count and a population, and since police records miss unreported incidents the real level is higher still. All four governments we track, the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, place Peru at their second advisory level, increased caution, with no disagreement, and each flags pickpocketing and scams aimed at visitors. Resident sentiment is low and matches the crime data: in a national survey, 43.4% said they feel safe walking alone at night, though that result covers the country rather than Arequipa.