Perth

Australia · Oceania

92Safety indexLower concern

U.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

UK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

5/5metric categories covered

Open comparison

-31.95°, 115.86°

Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Perth scores 92 out of 100 in our composite index, safer than about 70% of the cities we rank.

Its homicide rate is 1.8 per 100,000, slightly above the median for the cities we track, though that figure covers the wider state and rests on a definition that differs from our standard one, so it is not a clean city-level count. Robbery is recorded at 43.7 per 100,000, also for the state and calculated by us from a count and a population. The US, Canada, and the UK all hold Australia at their lowest advisory level, while flagging pickpocketing and scams for travellers. In a national survey, 90.8% of people said they feel safe walking alone at night, which sits alongside the low recorded rates, though the survey covers the whole country rather than Perth.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern

Violent crime4

Robbery & theft8

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)

1.8/100k

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 Western Australia (state / province), wider than Perth 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 45% of tracked cities

1.8/100k

0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)

43.7/100k

Figure is for Western Australia (state / province), wider than Perth itself.

Rate computed by project-atlas: 1316 (count, 2024) ÷ 3008700 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 69% of tracked cities

43.7/100k

0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department

U.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: U.S. Department of State — Australia Travel Advisory

Global Affairs Canada

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

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

UK FCDO

UK 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 Perth 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)