City Travel Stats

Hobart

Australia · Oceania

92Safety indexLower concern
1US flagU.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions
5/5metric categories covered
Open comparison
-42.88°, 147.33°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Hobart scores 92 out of 100 in our index, safer than roughly 70% of the cities we score.

Its homicide rate is 1.7 per 100,000, a touch above the median for the cities we track, but that figure is reported for the wider state, and its definition differs from our standard, so treat it with some caution. Robbery is 47.8 per 100,000, also a state-level number we calculated from a count and a population. Three governments we track, the US, Canada, and the UK, all hold Australia at their lowest advisory level; Australia does not issue guidance on itself. Their advisories still mention pickpocketing and scams. In a national survey, 90.8% of people said they feel safe walking alone at night, among the higher results we hold.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime3
Robbery & theft9
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)
1.7/100k
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 Tasmania (state / province), wider than Hobart itself.

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

Where this sits on the scaleGuarded
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 47% of tracked cities
1.7/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
47.8/100k
Figure is for Tasmania (state / province), wider than Hobart itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 275 (count, 2024) ÷ 575800 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 scaleGuarded
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 66% of tracked cities
47.8/100k
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 — Australia Travel Advisory

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

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

UK FCDO
1GB flagUK 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 Hobart 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)