City Travel Stats

Detroit

United States · North America

43Safety indexModerate
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
42.33°, -83.05°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Detroit scores 43 out of 100 in our composite, with only about 12% of the cities we rank falling below it.

Its homicide rate is 31.2 per 100,000, close to 20 times the median for the cities we track, and this figure is measured at the city level with no adjustment flags. Robbery is recorded at 183.8 per 100,000; police counts only capture reported incidents, so the true rate runs higher. Canada, the UK, and Australia each hold the United States at their lowest advisory level. A national survey put the share of people who feel safe walking alone at night at 60%, but that number describes the whole country, not Detroit, so it should not be read as a local reading.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime62
Robbery & theft33
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)
31.2/100k

Primary source: FBI Crime Data Explorer — Detroit Police Department

Where this sits on the scaleSevere
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 6% of tracked cities
31.2/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
183.8/100k

Primary source: FBI Crime Data Explorer — Detroit Police Department

Where this sits on the scaleElevated
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 22% of tracked cities
183.8/100k
0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department

No advisory on record.

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

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — United States Travel Advice and Advisories

UK FCDO
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — United States travel advice

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

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — United States 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
60%feel safe
60% of people surveyed · United States · 2023
Survey figure is for United States (country), wider than Detroit 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
1 of 2 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 1 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 — United States travel advice (Safety and security)

Scams & fraud in travel advisories
1 of 2 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 1 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 — United States travel advice (Safety and security)