City Travel Stats

Melbourne

Australia · Oceania

93Safety 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
-37.81°, 144.96°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Melbourne sits in the safer part of our index at 93 out of 100, ahead of about 75% of the cities we score.

Its homicide rate is 1.6 per 100,000, level with the median for the cities we track, though that figure covers the wider state and rests on a definition that does not line up exactly with our others. Robbery is 49 per 100,000, also a state figure and calculated by us from a count and a population. Three governments weigh in, and the US, Canada, and the UK all place Australia at their lowest advisory level. Their advisories still name pickpocketing and scams for the destination. In a national survey, 90.8% of people said they feel safe walking alone at night, though that result covers the country rather than Melbourne on its own. It aligns with the score.

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)
1.6/100k
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 Victoria (state / province), wider than Melbourne 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 51% of tracked cities
1.6/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
49/100k
Figure is for Victoria (state / province), wider than Melbourne itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 3436 (count, 2024) ÷ 7011100 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 65% of tracked cities
49/100k
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 Melbourne 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)