Canberra

Australia · Oceania

95Safety indexLower concern

U.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

UK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

5/5metric categories covered

Open comparison

-35.28°, 149.13°

Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Canberra scores 95 out of 100 in our composite index, ranking safer than about 80% of the cities we score.

Its homicide rate is 1.5 per 100,000, near the median we track, but that number comes from the wider state and uses a definition that does not match our standard, so read it carefully. Robbery is 37.8 per 100,000, another state-level figure we derived from a count and a population. The US, Canada, and the UK all keep Australia at their lowest advisory level, while noting pickpocketing and scams that can affect visitors. A national survey put the share of people who feel safe walking alone at night at 90.8%, consistent with the low recorded crime, though it covers the whole country rather than Canberra.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern

Violent crime3

Robbery & theft7

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)

1.5/100k

ABS "Homicide and related offences" = murder + attempted murder + manslaughter (ANZSOC 01). It includes attempts, so it runs higher than the ICCS 0101 intentional-homicide definition used for peer cities — read it as the ABS homicide-and-related rate, not strictly completed homicides.

Figure is for Australian Capital Territory (state / province), wider than Canberra itself.

Primary source: Australian Bureau of Statistics — Recorded Crime – Victims (states and territories), 2024

Where this sits on the scaleGuarded

01·3·8·20·40 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 52% of tracked cities

1.5/100k

0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)

37.8/100k

Figure is for Australian Capital Territory (state / province), wider than Canberra itself.

Rate computed by project-atlas: 182 (count, 2024) ÷ 481700 population (ABS — National state and territory population (ERP at 31 December 2024), 2024) × 100k.

Primary source: Australian Bureau of Statistics — Recorded Crime – Victims (states and territories), 2024

Where this sits on the scaleLow

040·120·250·400·600 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 71% of tracked cities

37.8/100k

0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department

U.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions

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

Global Affairs Canada

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

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

UK FCDO

UK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — Australia travel advice

Smartraveller (Australia)

No advisory on record.

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

90.8%feel safe

90.8% of people surveyed · Australia · 2022

Population-weighted combine of the ABS men (94%) and women (85%) figures — ABS publishes no combined persons total.

Base is people who actually walked alone after dark (not the whole adult population), so not directly comparable to the UN/Eurostat figures.

Survey figure is for Australia (country), wider than Canberra itself.

Primary source: Australian Bureau of Statistics — General feelings of safety (Personal Safety Survey)

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 — Australia travel advice (Safety and security)

Scams & fraud 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 — Australia travel advice (Safety and security)