Safetlas

How safe is Ireland?

Officially recorded crime for every Garda division - 28 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: CSO recorded crime (statistics under reservation) · Census population.

Safest areas in Ireland

  1. Cork West Division - 22.9 crimes / 1,000 residents
  2. Meath Division - 33.2 crimes / 1,000 residents
  3. Roscommon/Longford Division - 34.9 crimes / 1,000 residents
  4. Cork North Division - 36.4 crimes / 1,000 residents
  5. Clare Division - 36.4 crimes / 1,000 residents

Highest recorded crime

  1. D.M.R. North Central Division - 274.5 crimes / 1,000 residents
  2. D.M.R. South Central Division - 155.1 crimes / 1,000 residents
  3. D.M.R. Western Division - 75.2 crimes / 1,000 residents
  4. Louth Division - 62.7 crimes / 1,000 residents
  5. D.M.R. Southern Division - 55.7 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 Ireland only.

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All 28 Garda divisions, including the six Dublin Metropolitan Region divisions.