City Travel Stats

Bergen

Norway · Europe

100Safety indexLower concern
1US flagU.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions
5/5metric categories covered
Open comparison
60.39°, 5.32°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Bergen scores 100 out of 100, the top of our scale.

The figures below still merit a close read. Its homicide rate is 0.5 per 100,000, and robbery is 19 per 100,000. Both are reported for the wider region rather than the city, and we calculated the rates from a count and a population, so take them as upper bounds on the local level. The robbery figure is also police-recorded, which means it counts only reported incidents. All four governments we track, the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, hold Norway at their lowest advisory level, with no disagreement, and each still names pickpocketing and scams as things for visitors to watch. We hold no walking-alone perception survey for Bergen.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime1
Robbery & theft3
Travel advisory0
The radar shows the three sourced, comparable risk measures (homicide, robbery, the strictest travel-advisory level). Tourist petty-crime signals are a different kind of measure — how often advisories mention them — so they are shown as rows under Tourist-specific incidents, not as radar axes.

Homicide / general violence

Intentional homicides (per 100,000)
0.5/100k
Figure is for Vestland (state / province), wider than Bergen itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 3 (count, 2024) ÷ 651299 population (Eurostat — Population on 1 January by NUTS 3 region (demo_r_pjanaggr3), 2024) × 100k.

Primary source: Eurostat — Police-recorded offences by NUTS 3 region (crim_gen_reg)

Where this sits on the scaleLow
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 89% of tracked cities
0.5/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
19/100k
Police-recorded robbery undercounts true incidence (not every robbery is reported). Read this as recorded robbery, not total robbery.
Figure is for Vestland (state / province), wider than Bergen itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 124 (count, 2024) ÷ 651299 population (Eurostat — Population on 1 January by NUTS 3 region (demo_r_pjanaggr3), 2024) × 100k.

Primary source: Eurostat — Police-recorded offences by NUTS 3 region (crim_gen_reg)

Where this sits on the scaleLow
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 83% of tracked cities
19/100k
0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department
1US flagU.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: U.S. Department of State — Norway Travel Advisory

Global Affairs Canada
1CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Norway Travel Advice and Advisories

UK FCDO
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — Norway travel advice

Smartraveller (Australia)
1AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — Norway travel advice

Perceived safety

How safe people say they feel, from official population surveys — a separate signal, not part of the Safety Index.
Report crime, violence or vandalism in their area
National survey
5.9%report a problem
5.9% of people surveyed · Norway · 2023
Survey figure is for Norway (country), wider than Bergen itself.

Primary source: Eurostat — Crime, violence or vandalism in the area (EU-SILC)

Tourist-specific incidents

How often government travel advisories mention each — a source-consensus signal, not a risk rate.
Pickpocketing & petty theft in travel advisories
3 of 3 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 3 of 3 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Norway travel advice (Safety and security)

Scams & fraud in travel advisories
2 of 3 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 2 of 3 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Norway travel advice (Safety and security)