City Travel Stats

New York

United States · North America

68Safety indexLower 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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40.71°, -74.01°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

New York scores 68 out of 100 in our composite, safer than about a third of the 192 cities we rank.

Its homicide rate is 4.3 per 100,000, a city-level figure with no caveats, running roughly 2.7 times the median across tracked cities. Robbery is higher at 198.7 per 100,000, also measured for the city itself, and police records capture only what people report, so treat that as a floor. Canada, the UK, and Australia all hold the United States at their lowest advisory level, though each names pickpocketing and scams as risks for visitors. In a national survey, 60% of people said they feel safe walking alone after dark, a figure for the country rather than New York specifically.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime9
Robbery & theft36
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)
4.3/100k

Primary source: FBI Crime Data Explorer — New York City Police Department

Where this sits on the scaleElevated
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 34% of tracked cities
4.3/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
198.7/100k

Primary source: FBI Crime Data Explorer — New York City Police Department

Where this sits on the scaleElevated
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 19% of tracked cities
198.7/100k
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 York 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)