How safe is Czechia?
Officially recorded crime for every region - 14 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 14 regions of Czechia, officially recorded crime ranges from about 16.9 per 1,000 residents in Kraj Vysočina to 49.4 in Hlavní město Praha - about 3 times as high. A typical region sits at around 26.0 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 region level to see how the picture changes from one area to the next.
Safest areas in Czechia
- Kraj Vysočina - 16.9 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Pardubický kraj - 17.7 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Zlínský kraj - 19.8 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Jihočeský kraj - 22.5 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Královéhradecký kraj - 22.5 crimes / 1,000 residents
Highest recorded crime in Czechia
- Hlavní město Praha - 49.4 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Moravskoslezský kraj - 37.8 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Liberecký kraj - 34.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Ústecký kraj - 32.7 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Karlovarský kraj - 31.5 crimes / 1,000 residents
Popular cities in Czechia
Heading to one city? These guides answer “is it safe?” with the same official data, broken down by neighbourhood:
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 Czechia only.
14 regions (kraje) drill down to all 77 districts (okresy), built from 2.5 million geocoded incidents. 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 Czechia. Use the search box to jump to a place by name, or the locate button to find the region you are standing in right now.
Open the interactive map of Czechia →