City Travel Stats

Cork

Ireland · Europe

98Safety 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
51.90°, -8.48°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Cork scores 98 out of 100 in our index, near the top and safer than about 85% of the cities we score.

The homicide rate is 1.3 per 100,000, under the median, but it covers a wider municipal area and we derived the rate from a count and a population, so take it as an upper bound for the city. Robbery is recorded at 29 per 100,000, drawn the same way and carrying some uncertainty in the population used, and as police data it understates real frequency. All four governments we track, the US, Canada, Britain, and Australia, hold Ireland at their lowest advisory level. Those advisories still flag pickpocketing and scams for visitors. In a national survey, 75% of people said they feel safe walking alone at night.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime3
Robbery & theft5
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)
1.3/100k
Figure is for Cork City Garda Division (municipality), wider than Cork itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 3 (count, 2025) ÷ 224004 population (CSO Ireland — Census of Population 2022 (Cork City Council administrative area; table FY003A), 2022) × 100k.

Primary source: CSO — Central Statistics Office, Ireland (Recorded Crime, An Garda Síochána PULSE)

Where this sits on the scaleGuarded
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 59% of tracked cities
1.3/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
29/100k
Police-recorded (PULSE) robbery undercounts true incidence — a share of robberies go unreported. Read this as recorded robbery, not total robbery.
The Cork City Garda Division boundary is close to, but not identical with, the Cork City Council area used as the rate denominator (Census 2022). Read the per-100k rate as approximate.
Figure is for Cork City Garda Division (municipality), wider than Cork itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 65 (count, 2025) ÷ 224004 population (CSO Ireland — Census of Population 2022 (Cork City Council administrative area; table FY003A), 2022) × 100k.

Primary source: CSO — Central Statistics Office, Ireland (Recorded Crime, An Garda Síochána PULSE)

Where this sits on the scaleLow
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 78% of tracked cities
29/100k
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 — Ireland Travel Advisory

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

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

UK FCDO
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — Ireland travel advice

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

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — Ireland 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
75%feel safe
75% of people surveyed · Ireland · 2019
Survey figure is for Ireland (country), wider than Cork itself.

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

Report crime, violence or vandalism in their area
National survey
9.6%report a problem
9.6% of people surveyed · Ireland · 2023
Survey figure is for Ireland (country), wider than Cork 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 — Ireland 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 — Ireland travel advice (Safety and security)