City Travel Stats

Brasília

Brazil · Latin America & Caribbean

56Safety indexModerate
2CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 2 · Increased caution
2GB flagUK FCDOLevel 2 · Increased caution
2AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 2 · Increased caution
4/5metric categories covered
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-15.79°, -47.88°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Brasília scores 56 out of 100, safer than only 21% of the cities we score.

We hold a homicide rate of 7.8 per 100,000, roughly 4.9 times the median for the cities we track, though it covers the municipality rather than the city core and we calculated it from a count and a population. We have no vetted robbery rate here, so the profile rests on three of the five incidence categories and should be read as provisional. All four governments we track put Brazil at their second advisory level, increased caution, with no disagreement. Those advisories also flag pickpocketing and scams aimed at visitors. On perception, 48.3% of people said they feel safe walking alone at night, but that result is for the country as a whole, not Brasília on its own.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime16
Robbery & theftNo data
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)
7.8/100k
Figure is for Brasília (municipality), wider than Brasília itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 221 (count, 2025) ÷ 2817381 population (IBGE — Censo Demográfico 2022, 2022) × 100k.

Primary source: SINESP / Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública — Dados Nacionais de Segurança Pública (VDE)

Where this sits on the scaleElevated
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 24% of tracked cities
7.8/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

No vetted robbery figure for Brasília yet.

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department

No advisory on record.

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

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

UK FCDO
2GB flagUK FCDOLevel 2 · Increased caution

Primary source: UK FCDO — Brazil travel advice

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

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — Brazil 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
48.3%feel safe
48.3% of people surveyed · Brazil · 2021
Survey figure is for Brazil (country), wider than Brasília 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 — Brazil 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 — Brazil travel advice (Safety and security)