Austin

Austin sits at 70 out of 100 in our composite index, safer than about 37% of the 192 cities we score.

Its homicide rate is 6.7 per 100,000, roughly four times the median for the cities we track, and that figure is recorded for the city itself. Robbery is 85.4 per 100,000, a police-recorded number in this case reported without an undercount flag, though such counts still capture only incidents that reach the authorities. Canada, the UK, and Australia all hold the United States at their lowest advisory level, and each of those advisories names pickpocketing and scams as risks for visitors. A survey found 60% of people feel safe walking alone after dark, but that result covers the whole country rather than Austin on its own.