City Travel Stats

New Orleans

United States · North America

36Safety indexHigher concern
1CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions
5/5metric categories covered
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29.95°, -90.07°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

New Orleans is one of the lower-scoring cities in our index, at 36 out of 100, with about 8% of scored cities ranking below it.

Its homicide rate is 53 per 100,000, around 33 times the median for the cities we track, and the figure is city-level with no geographic or timing caveats attached. Recorded robbery is 180.1 per 100,000, likewise city-specific, and as with all police data the true frequency is higher than what gets reported. Canada, the UK, and Australia each keep the United States at their lowest advisory level, and their guidance still notes pickpocketing and scams for travellers. A national survey found 60% of people feel safe walking alone at night, but that result covers the whole country rather than New Orleans.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime100
Robbery & theft33
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)
53/100k

Primary source: FBI Crime Data Explorer — New Orleans Police Department

Where this sits on the scaleExtreme
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 3% of tracked cities
53/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
180.1/100k

Primary source: FBI Crime Data Explorer — New Orleans Police Department

Where this sits on the scaleElevated
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 23% of tracked cities
180.1/100k
0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department

No advisory on record.

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

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — United States Travel Advice and Advisories

UK FCDO
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — United States travel advice

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

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — United States 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
60%feel safe
60% of people surveyed · United States · 2023
Survey figure is for United States (country), wider than New Orleans itself.

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

Tourist-specific incidents

How often government travel advisories mention each — a source-consensus signal, not a risk rate.
Pickpocketing & petty theft in travel advisories
1 of 2 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 1 of 2 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.
Based on only 2 reviewed advisories — a thin sample; treat as indicative.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — United States travel advice (Safety and security)

Scams & fraud in travel advisories
1 of 2 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 1 of 2 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.
Based on only 2 reviewed advisories — a thin sample; treat as indicative.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — United States travel advice (Safety and security)