How safe is Lithuania?

Officially recorded crime for every county - 10 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 2024 (police-recorded, selected offences). Sources: Eurostat (crim_gen_reg, police-recorded offences) · GISCO/NUTS boundaries.

Across all 10 counties of Lithuania, officially recorded crime ranges from about 4.3 per 1,000 residents in Tauragės to 9.7 in Vilniaus - about 2 times as high. A typical county sits at around 6.0 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 county level to see how the picture changes from one area to the next.

Safest areas in Lithuania

1. Tauragės - 4.3 crimes / 1,000 residents
2. Telšių - 4.3 crimes / 1,000 residents
3. Utenos - 5.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
4. Marijampolės - 5.3 crimes / 1,000 residents
5. Šiaulių - 5.9 crimes / 1,000 residents

Highest recorded crime in Lithuania

1. Vilniaus - 9.7 crimes / 1,000 residents
2. Kauno - 7.7 crimes / 1,000 residents
3. Panevėžio - 6.4 crimes / 1,000 residents
4. Klaipėdos - 6.2 crimes / 1,000 residents
5. Alytaus - 6.0 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 Lithuania only.

All 10 counties (apskritys), police-recorded offences (Eurostat) with violence and theft broken out - a selected set of offence types, not the full penal code. 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 Lithuania. Use the search box to jump to a place by name, or the locate button to find the county you are standing in right now.