Before you lock in your next travel destination, it might be worth asking: How safe does it feel to be there? While guidebooks talk about top attractions and food spots, they often skip the part about local crime perception. Numbeo is a crowd-sourced platform where people rate their perception of crime in a city or country. People share how they feel about local crime, rating it from -2 (very unsafe) to +2 (very safe). To keep things legit, Numbeo runs these responses through filters that catch spam and fake accounts. The final scores are converted to a 0 to 100 scale, where anything below 20 is considered very low crime, 20 to 40 is low, 40 to 60 is moderate, 60 to 80 is high, and anything above 80 is classified as very high crime.
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People are rating several factors, including their perception of general crime levels, how safe they feel during the day and at night, concerns about being mugged, robbed, harassed, or worse, as well as the severity of property crimes like theft, burglary, and vandalism, and violent crimes such as assault, homicide, and sexual violence. Of course, this is all about perception, not actual police records.
The Crime Index list may help travellers plan their destinations.
Here are 10 countries that ranked highest on the Crime Index:
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - 82.7
Pretoria, South Africa - 81.8
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea - 81.4
Caracas, Venezuela - 81.3
Johannesburg, South Africa - 80.8
Durban, South Africa - 80.4
San Pedro Sula, Honduras - 79.4
Port Elizabeth, South Africa - 78.3
Memphis, TN, United States - 78.0
Salvador - Brazil
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India is not on this particular list, but it still falls into the "moderate" crime bracket, the report added. Urban safety varies from city to city, so travellers should do some digging before deciding where to stay or what to explore.
