How safe is Germany?

Officially recorded crime for every district - 400 in total - with rates per 1,000 residents, on an interactive map you can zoom from the whole country down to street level.

Data period: calendar year 2025. Sources: BKA Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik · Opendatasoft boundaries.

Across all 400 districts of Germany, officially recorded crime ranges from about 19.8 per 1,000 residents in Regensburg to 150.3 in Frankfurt am Main - about 8 times as high. A typical district sits at around 51.0 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 district level to see how the picture changes from one area to the next.

Safest areas in Germany

  1. Regensburg - 19.8 crimes / 1,000 residents
  2. Amberg-Sulzbach - 20.3 crimes / 1,000 residents
  3. Bamberg - 20.7 crimes / 1,000 residents
  4. Straubing-Bogen - 21.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
  5. Würzburg - 21.0 crimes / 1,000 residents

Highest recorded crime in Germany

  1. Frankfurt am Main - 150.3 crimes / 1,000 residents
  2. Frankfurt (Oder) - 143.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
  3. Berlin - 136.4 crimes / 1,000 residents
  4. Bremen - 135.6 crimes / 1,000 residents
  5. Suhl - 135.3 crimes / 1,000 residents

Popular cities in Germany

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 Germany only.

All 400 districts (Kreise), from Berlin to rural Bavaria, with pickpocketing and burglary in the breakdown. 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 Germany. Use the search box to jump to a place by name, or the locate button to find the district you are standing in right now.

Open the interactive map of Germany →