City Travel Stats

Dublin

Ireland · Europe

95Safety 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
53.35°, -6.26°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Dublin scores 95 out of 100, which places it in the safest tier of the cities we rank.

The underlying rates are drawn from the wider metro area rather than the city core and were calculated by us from counts and populations, so read them as approximate. Homicide comes to 0.9 per 100,000 and robbery to 58.2 per 100,000; the robbery figure is police-recorded, so the true level is higher than what shows up in the count. All four governments we track, the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, agree on Ireland at their lowest advisory level. A city-level survey found 69% of residents feel safe walking alone at night, which sits reasonably in line with the low recorded crime.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime2
Robbery & theft11
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)
0.9/100k
Figure is for Dublin Metropolitan Region (metro area), wider than Dublin itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 13 (count, 2025) ÷ 1458154 population (CSO Ireland — Census of Population 2022 (County Dublin = sum of the four Dublin local authorities; table FY003A), 2022) × 100k.

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

Where this sits on the scaleLow
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 68% of tracked cities
0.9/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
58.2/100k
Police-recorded (PULSE) robbery undercounts true incidence — a share of robberies go unreported. Read this as recorded robbery, not total robbery.
Figure is for Dublin Metropolitan Region (metro area), wider than Dublin itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 848 (count, 2025) ÷ 1458154 population (CSO Ireland — Census of Population 2022 (County Dublin = sum of the four Dublin local authorities; table FY003A), 2022) × 100k.

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

Where this sits on the scaleGuarded
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 57% of tracked cities
58.2/100k
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
City survey
69%feel safe
69% of people surveyed · Dublin · 2023
% feeling safe = Eurostat "strongly agree" (27.1%) + "somewhat agree" (41.9%); both are shares of the same respondents (base includes "don't know").

Primary source: Eurostat — Quality of Life in European Cities (Flash Eurobarometer, DG REGIO)

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 Dublin 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)