City Travel Stats

Santo Domingo

Dominican Republic · Latin America & Caribbean

Safety index
2US flagU.S. State DeptLevel 2 · Increased caution
2CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 2 · Increased caution
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions
2AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 2 · Increased caution
4/5metric categories covered
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18.49°, -69.93°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

We do not hold a vetted homicide rate for Santo Domingo, and with that input missing we do not compute a composite score, so there is no single number to read here.

What we do have is a recorded robbery rate of 195 per 100,000. That figure covers the wider state rather than the city, we calculated it ourselves from a raw count and a population, and police data records only reported incidents, so treat it as an upper-bound estimate that still understates the true frequency. On advisories the governments we track split: the UK keeps the Dominican Republic at its lowest level, while the US, Canada, and Australia each raise it to increased caution. Every advisory that covers the country also flags pickpocketing and scams directed at visitors. In a national survey, 39.6% of people said they feel safe walking alone after dark, a result for the whole country rather than the capital.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crimeNo data
Robbery & theft35
Travel advisoryNo data
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

No vetted homicide figure for Santo Domingo yet.

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
195/100k
Police-recorded robbery (asalto/atraco) denuncias undercount true incidence — Dominican crime has a high share of unreported events (subregistro). Read this as recorded robbery, not total robbery. Source notes the figures are provisional.
Figure is for Distrito Nacional (state / province), wider than Santo Domingo itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 2007 (count, 2025) ÷ 1029110 population (ONE — X Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2022, 2022) × 100k.

Primary source: Policía Nacional / Ministerio de Interior y Policía — Denuncias de robo (asalto/atraco)

Where this sits on the scaleElevated
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 21% of tracked cities
195/100k
0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department
2US flagU.S. State DeptLevel 2 · Increased caution

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

Global Affairs Canada
2CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 2 · Increased caution

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Dominican Republic Travel Advice and Advisories

UK FCDO
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — Dominican Republic travel advice

Smartraveller (Australia)
2AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 2 · Increased caution

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — Dominican Republic 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
39.6%feel safe
39.6% of people surveyed · Dominican Republic · 2022
Survey figure is for Dominican Republic (country), wider than Santo Domingo 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
2 of 3 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 2 of 3 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Dominican Republic travel advice (Safety and security)

Scams & fraud in travel advisories
2 of 3 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 2 of 3 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Dominican Republic travel advice (Safety and security)