Safety score
Personal safety, institutional trust, and resilience signals informed by international safety and crime data.
Safety in London79/100
Safety
Safety in London
London has solid safety with neighborhood variation. Violent-crime context is comparatively low; opportunistic risks are concentrated in transit and tourist hubs.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-03
- Data year
- 2025
- Module score
- 79/100
Safety score
79/100
Solid score reinforced by institutional response capacity.
Violent-crime context
Low-moderate
Violent-crime context is comparatively low globally.
Watch item
Phone snatching
High-traffic central areas concentrate opportunistic property crime.
London safety data table
This HTML table mirrors the visible score cards so important comparison data is never trapped in a browser-only chart.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Safety score | 79/100 | Resident experience varies by neighborhood. |
| Violent-crime context | Low-moderate | Long-run trend is favorable but not flat. |
| Watch item | Phone snatching | Awareness in busy transit hubs remains useful. |
Safety city comparison
A crawlable comparison across every indexed city makes it easy to scan how this module changes between metros.
| City | Score | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| London (this page) | 79/100 | London has solid safety with neighborhood variation. Violent-crime context is comparatively low; opportunistic risks are concentrated in transit and tourist hubs. |
| Singapore | 95/100 | Singapore is among the safest cities globally, with very low violent-crime context and strong institutional response. |
| Tokyo | 93/100 | Tokyo scores at the very top globally on safety, with very low violent-crime context, strong institutions, and high resident perception of safety. |
| Copenhagen | 92/100 | Copenhagen scores high on safety due to strong public trust, low violent-crime context, and reliable institutional response. |
| Sydney | 87/100 | Sydney is among the safer large global cities, with low violent-crime context and strong institutional response. |
| Toronto | 84/100 | Toronto is among the safer large North American cities, with low violent-crime context and solid institutional response. |
| Berlin | 82/100 | Berlin has solid safety with neighborhood variation. Violent-crime context is comparatively low; opportunistic risks concentrate in transit and night-life areas. |
| Paris | 78/100 | Paris has solid overall safety, with neighborhood variation and tourist-area opportunistic risks more visible than violent crime. |
| New York | 74/100 | New York is mid-pack on safety: violent-crime context has improved over decades but property and incident pressure remain present in dense areas. |
Explanation
Safety scoring weighs violent-crime context, neighborhood variation, and institutional response. Large global cities tend to have visible opportunistic risk patterns.
Read this module with the main city profile because single-topic pages can miss tradeoffs. A city with a high energy score can still have housing pressure, and a city with strong opportunity can still carry health exposure risk.
Sources
These pages use trusted institutional references for methodology and context. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: UNODC Data Portal
Used as a directional benchmark for relative city safety framing.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
Continue exploring
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London city profile
Return to the complete London profile with all module scores and source context.
Cost of Living in London
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Air Quality in London
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Energy in London
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Internet Speed in London
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Climate Risk in London
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Overall Intelligence
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Quality of Life
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