San Juan

Puerto Rico · Latin America & Caribbean

51Safety indexModerate

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

4/5metric categories covered

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18.47°, -66.11°

Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

San Juan scores 51 out of 100 in our composite index, safer than only about 16% of the cities we rank.

The homicide rate is 22.5 per 100,000, roughly 14 times the median tracked city, reported for the municipality and derived by us from a count and a population. Robbery is recorded at 101.4 per 100,000, also for the municipality and calculated the same way. Only one of the governments we track publishes guidance we can attach here: Canada holds it at its lowest advisory level. That advisory flags pickpocketing and scams for travellers. We do not hold a resident-perception survey for San Juan, so how safe residents say they feel is not reflected above.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern

Violent crime45

Robbery & theft18

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)

22.5/100k

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

Rate computed by project-atlas: 77 (count, 2024) ÷ 342259 population (U.S. Census Bureau 2020 Census (DEC P.L. 94-171) — San Juan Municipio Puerto Rico, 2020) × 100k.

Primary source: Negociado de la Policía de Puerto Rico — Delitos Tipo I por municipios

Where this sits on the scaleSevere

01·3·8·20·40 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 9% of tracked cities

22.5/100k

0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)

101.4/100k

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

Rate computed by project-atlas: 347 (count, 2024) ÷ 342259 population (U.S. Census Bureau 2020 Census (DEC P.L. 94-171) — San Juan Municipio Puerto Rico, 2020) × 100k.

Primary source: Negociado de la Policía de Puerto Rico — Delitos Tipo I por municipios

Where this sits on the scaleGuarded

040·120·250·400·600 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 39% of tracked cities

101.4/100k

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 — Puerto Rico Travel Advice and Advisories

UK FCDO

No advisory on record.

Smartraveller (Australia)

No advisory on record.

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 1 advisory mention this

project-atlas count: 1 of 1 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

Based on only 1 reviewed advisory — a thin sample; treat as indicative.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Puerto Rico travel advice (Safety and security)

Scams & fraud in travel advisories

0 of 1 advisory mention this

project-atlas count: 0 of 1 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

Based on only 1 reviewed advisory — a thin sample; treat as indicative.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Puerto Rico travel advice (Safety and security)