San Diego

United States · North America

82Safety indexLower concern

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

UK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Smartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions

5/5metric categories covered

Open comparison

32.72°, -117.16°

Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

With a composite score of 82 out of 100, San Diego lands safer than about 52% of the cities we rank.

The homicide rate is 3 per 100,000, roughly twice the median, and is reported for the municipality. Robbery is recorded at 22 per 100,000 from police data, so the figure counts only reported cases and the actual number is higher. Canada, the UK, and Australia all keep the United States at their lowest advisory level, and each advisory still flags pickpocketing and scams aimed at travellers. In a national survey, 60% of people said they feel safe walking alone after dark, a country-wide result rather than one specific to San Diego.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern

Violent crime6

Robbery & theft4

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)

3/100k

Figure is for San Diego (municipality), wider than San Diego itself.

Primary source: Policía Nacional de Colombia — Homicidios (datos abiertos)

Where this sits on the scaleElevated

01·3·8·20·40 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 36% of tracked cities

3/100k

0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)

22/100k

Police-recorded robbery (hurto con violencia) — Colombian hurto is under-reported (cifra negra), so read this as recorded robbery, not total robbery.

Figure is for San Diego (municipality), wider than San Diego itself.

Primary source: Policía Nacional de Colombia — Estadística delictiva (hurtos por arma, Cuadro 10)

Where this sits on the scaleLow

040·120·250·400·600 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 82% of tracked cities

22/100k

0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department

No advisory on record.

Global Affairs Canada

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

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

UK FCDO

UK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — United States travel advice

Smartraveller (Australia)

Smartraveller (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 San Diego 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)