How safe is Romania?
Officially recorded crime for every county - 42 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 42 counties of Romania, officially recorded crime ranges from about 9.1 per 1,000 residents in Satu Mare to 36.1 in Bucureşti - about 4 times as high. A typical county sits at around 16.9 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 Romania
- Satu Mare - 9.1 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Prahova - 11.8 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Călăraşi - 12.4 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Dolj - 12.7 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Bistriţa-Năsăud - 13.2 crimes / 1,000 residents
Highest recorded crime in Romania
- Bucureşti - 36.1 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Vaslui - 27.8 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Hunedoara - 27.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Braşov - 25.5 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Iaşi - 21.9 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 Romania only.
All 42 counties (judete), the official police-handled crime rate - Romania publishes a single total per county, so there's 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 Romania. 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.
Open the interactive map of Romania →