Darwin

Australia · Oceania

70Safety 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

-12.46°, 130.85°

Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Darwin scores 70 out of 100 in our composite index, placing it safer than about 37% of the cities we score.

The crime figures come with a caveat: both the homicide rate of 3.5 per 100,000 and the robbery rate of 197.2 per 100,000 are reported for the wider state, not Darwin itself, so treat them as upper bounds on the local level. We calculated the robbery rate ourselves from a raw count and a population. The homicide figure also carries a definition mismatch against how other cities count. Three governments we track, the US, Canada, and the UK, all hold Australia at their lowest advisory level. In a national survey, 90.8% of residents said they feel safe walking alone after dark, though that result covers the whole country rather than the city.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern

Violent crime7

Robbery & theft36

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)

3.5/100k

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 Northern Territory (state / province), wider than Darwin itself.

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

Where this sits on the scaleElevated

01·3·8·20·40 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 36% of tracked cities

3.5/100k

0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)

197.2/100k

Figure is for Northern Territory (state / province), wider than Darwin itself.

Rate computed by project-atlas: 517 (count, 2024) ÷ 262200 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 scaleElevated

040·120·250·400·600 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 20% of tracked cities

197.2/100k

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 Darwin 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)