City Travel Stats

Lucerne

Switzerland · Europe

99Safety 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
47.05°, 8.31°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Lucerne scores 99 out of 100, near the top of our scale and in the safest tier.

Its homicide rate is 0.2 per 100,000, about 0.1 times the median, though that figure covers the wider state, carries some uncertainty in its population base, and was calculated by us. Robbery is recorded at 33.6 per 100,000 and is reported for the city itself. All four governments we track hold Switzerland at their lowest advisory level, with no disagreement, while still naming petty crime and flagging pickpocketing and scams for visitors. In a national survey, 83.9% of people said they feel safe walking alone at night, a result for the country as a whole that lines up with the low recorded crime.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime0
Robbery & theft6
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)
0.2/100k
Very low annual counts at canton level — small-number volatility makes the derived per-100k rate noisy year to year.
Figure is for Luzern (state / province), wider than Lucerne itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 1 (count, 2025) ÷ 437944 population (BFS — Bilanz der ständigen Wohnbevölkerung nach Kanton (STATPOP/ESPOP) end of 2024 (T 01.02.04.01), 2024) × 100k.

Primary source: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS) — Police Crime Statistics (PKS), intentional homicide by canton (cube px-x-1903020100_101)

Where this sits on the scaleLow
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 98% of tracked cities
0.2/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
33.63/100k

Primary source: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS) — Police Crime Statistics (PKS), robbery (Art. 140) frequency rate by city (T 19.2.1.1.4)

Where this sits on the scaleLow
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 75% of tracked cities
33.63/100k
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 — Switzerland Travel Advisory

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

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

UK FCDO
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — Switzerland travel advice

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

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — Switzerland 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
83.9%feel safe
83.9% of people surveyed · Switzerland · 2024
Survey figure is for Switzerland (country), wider than Lucerne itself.

Primary source: UN SDG 16.1.4 — feel safe walking alone at night (UNODC)

Report crime, violence or vandalism in their area
National survey
8.5%report a problem
8.5% of people surveyed · Switzerland · 2023
Survey figure is for Switzerland (country), wider than Lucerne 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 — Switzerland 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 — Switzerland travel advice (Safety and security)