How safe is Austria?
Officially recorded crime for every state - 9 in total - with rates per 1,000 residents, on an interactive map you can zoom from the whole country down to street level.
Across all 9 states of Austria, officially recorded crime ranges from about 39.0 per 1,000 residents in Burgenland to 97.2 in Vienna - about 2 times as high. A typical state sits at around 46.3 per 1,000. The two lists below show the five lowest and the five highest; the interactive map holds the full ranking, and you can zoom past the state level to see how the picture changes from one area to the next.
Safest areas in Austria
- Burgenland - 39.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Upper Austria - 44.3 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Lower Austria - 44.3 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Styria - 46.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Carinthia - 46.3 crimes / 1,000 residents
Highest recorded crime in Austria
- Vienna - 97.2 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Salzburg - 58.8 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Vorarlberg - 56.1 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Tyrol - 54.1 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Carinthia - 46.3 crimes / 1,000 residents
Read the numbers honestly. Rates are per 1,000 residents, so city centres and tourist areas look worse than they feel - many visitors, few residents. Recorded crime is not the same as how safe a place feels, and recording practices differ between countries, so compare within Austria only.
All 9 federal states (Bundesländer), reported offences from the police crime statistics - Austria publishes only a single total per state, with no violence or theft split. Whichever area you land on, the rate is counted per 1,000 residents, so you can weigh a capital city against a quiet town on the same scale - as long as both sit inside Austria. Use the search box to jump to a place by name, or the locate button to find the state you are standing in right now.
Open the interactive map of Austria →