Montevideo

Montevideo scores 30 out of 100 in our index, safer than only 5% of the cities we score.

Its homicide rate is 16.2 per 100,000, roughly 10 times the median for the cities we track, and its recorded robbery rate is 889.4 per 100,000. Both figures cover the wider state and were calculated by us from counts and populations, so read them as area-level and not city-specific; the robbery number is also police-recorded and so understates how often it happens. On advisories the governments diverge: the US puts Uruguay at increased caution, while Canada, the UK, and Australia keep it at their lowest level. The advisories flag pickpocketing and scams for visitors. We hold no resident perception survey for the city.