How safe is Slovakia?
Officially recorded crime for every region - 8 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 8 regions of Slovakia, officially recorded crime ranges from about 1.6 per 1,000 residents in Trenčiansky kraj to 3.6 in Košický kraj - about 2 times as high. A typical region sits at around 2.0 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 Slovakia
- Trenčiansky kraj - 1.6 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Nitriansky kraj - 1.6 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Prešovský kraj - 1.7 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Žilinský kraj - 1.9 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Trnavský kraj - 2.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
Highest recorded crime in Slovakia
- Košický kraj - 3.6 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Bratislavský kraj - 3.5 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Banskobystrický kraj - 2.2 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Trnavský kraj - 2.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Žilinský kraj - 1.9 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 Slovakia only.
All 8 regions (kraje), police-recorded offences (Eurostat) with violence and theft broken out - a selected set of offence types; okres-level data isn't published in machine-readable form. 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 Slovakia. 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.
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