Cusco

Cusco scores 53 out of 100 in our index, safer than only 18% of the cities we score.

The homicide rate is 7.9 per 100,000, about 4.9 times the median for the cities we track, though it is pooled across multiple years rather than one and covers a wider municipal area. Robbery is recorded at 194.2 per 100,000, also a municipal figure we derived from a count and a population, and as police data it undercounts the true level. All four governments we track place Peru at their second advisory level, increased caution, with no disagreement. Their advisories name pickpocketing and scams as risks for travellers. On perception, 43.4% of people said they feel safe walking alone at night, a national figure that broadly matches the harder crime numbers.