City Travel Stats

Birmingham

United Kingdom · Europe

67Safety indexLower concern
2US flagU.S. State DeptLevel 2 · Increased caution
2CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 2 · Increased caution
2AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 2 · Increased caution
5/5metric categories covered
Open comparison
52.49°, -1.89°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Birmingham scores 67 out of 100, safer than about 31% of the cities we rank.

Its homicide rate is 1.6 per 100,000, near the median for the cities we track, and robbery is recorded at 386.7 per 100,000. Both figures cover the wider municipality rather than the city, are police-recorded so they understate the real level, and were calculated by us from a count and a population. All three governments on record here, the US, Canada, and Australia, set the United Kingdom at their second advisory level, increased caution, with no disagreement, and each flags pickpocketing and scams for visitors. A national survey found 78% of people feel safe walking alone at night, higher than the recorded robbery figure alone might suggest, though that survey covers the whole country rather than Birmingham.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime3
Robbery & theft70
Travel advisory33
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)
1.6/100k
Police-recorded crime depends on victim reporting and counts offences known to the police, not total incidence. Inner-city per-100,000 rates also use a resident-population denominator that understates the large daytime/transient population (ONS caution). Read this as recorded crime, not total crime.
Figure is for Birmingham (municipality), wider than Birmingham itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 19 (count, 2024) ÷ 1157600 population (ONS Mid-2022 population estimates (local authority), 2022) × 100k.

Primary source: Office for National Statistics / Home Office — Police recorded crime by Community Safety Partnership area (Table C3)

Where this sits on the scaleGuarded
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 51% of tracked cities
1.6/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
386.7/100k
Police-recorded crime depends on victim reporting and counts offences known to the police, not total incidence. Inner-city per-100,000 rates also use a resident-population denominator that understates the large daytime/transient population (ONS caution). Read this as recorded crime, not total crime.
Figure is for Birmingham (municipality), wider than Birmingham itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 4477 (count, 2024) ÷ 1157600 population (ONS Mid-2022 population estimates (local authority), 2022) × 100k.

Primary source: Office for National Statistics / Home Office — Police recorded crime by Community Safety Partnership area (Table C3)

Where this sits on the scaleHigh
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 9% of tracked cities
386.7/100k
0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department
2US flagU.S. State DeptLevel 2 · Increased caution

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

Global Affairs Canada
2CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 2 · Increased caution

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — United Kingdom Travel Advice and Advisories

UK FCDO

No advisory on record.

Smartraveller (Australia)
2AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 2 · Increased caution

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

Perceived safety

How safe people say they feel, from official population surveys — a separate signal, not part of the Safety Index.
Feel safe walking alone at night
National survey
78%feel safe
78% of people surveyed · United Kingdom · 2024
Survey figure is for United Kingdom (country), wider than Birmingham itself.

Primary source: UN SDG 16.1.4 — feel safe walking alone at night (UNODC)

Tourist-specific incidents

How often government travel advisories mention each — a source-consensus signal, not a risk rate.
Pickpocketing & petty theft in travel advisories
2 of 2 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 2 of 2 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.
Based on only 2 reviewed advisories — a thin sample; treat as indicative.

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

Scams & fraud in travel advisories
2 of 2 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 2 of 2 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.
Based on only 2 reviewed advisories — a thin sample; treat as indicative.

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