Reykjavik

Reykjavik scores 94 out of 100 in our composite index and sits in the safest tier of the cities we rank.

The homicide rate is 1.6 per 100,000, level with the median of the cities we track, but it covers the wider metro area and we calculated it from a raw count and a population, so read it as an upper bound on the city itself. Recorded robbery is 41.8 per 100,000, also a metro figure and also derived; because police data counts only reported incidents, the real number runs somewhat higher. All four governments we track hold Iceland at their lowest advisory level. In a city survey, 79.8% of residents said they feel safe walking alone at night, which fits the low recorded crime.