Safety score
Personal safety, institutional trust, and resilience signals informed by international safety and crime data.
Safety in Singapore95/100
Safety
Safety in Singapore
Singapore is among the safest cities globally, with very low violent-crime context and strong institutional response. Safety in Singapore scores 95/100, placing it in the leading group of the indexed set.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-05
- Data year
- 2025
- Module score
- 95/100
Safety score
95/100
Top-tier safety profile across the city-state.
Violent-crime context
Very low
Internationally low violent-crime context informs the score.
Resident perception
Very high
Public-space confidence is consistently positive.
Singapore safety data table
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| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Safety score | 95/100 | Among the safest large global cities. |
| Violent-crime context | Very low | Stability supports daily life and night-time activity. |
| Resident perception | Very high | Pedestrian and night-time safety are widely positive. |
Safety city comparison
A crawlable comparison across every indexed city makes it easy to scan how this module changes between metros.
| City | Score | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Singapore (this page) | 95/100 | Singapore is among the safest cities globally, with very low violent-crime context and strong institutional response. |
| Tokyo | 93/100 | Tokyo scores at the very top globally on safety, with very low violent-crime context, strong institutions, and high resident perception of safety. |
| Copenhagen | 92/100 | Copenhagen scores high on safety due to strong public trust, low violent-crime context, and reliable institutional response. |
| Zurich | 91/100 | Zurich is among the safest large European cities, with very low violent-crime context and strong institutional response. |
| Seoul | 90/100 | Seoul is among the safer large global cities, with low violent-crime context, strong institutional response, and consistent public-space confidence. |
| Amsterdam | 88/100 | Amsterdam scores high on safety, with low violent-crime context and strong everyday public-space confidence. |
| Vienna | 88/100 | Vienna is among the safer large European capitals, with low violent-crime context and consistent everyday public-space confidence. |
| Hong Kong | 88/100 | Hong Kong scores high on safety with low violent-crime context and reliable institutional response across the metro. |
| Dubai | 88/100 | Dubai scores high on safety, with very low violent-crime context and reliable institutional response across the metro. |
| Sydney | 87/100 | Sydney is among the safer large global cities, with low violent-crime context and strong institutional response. |
| Auckland | 86/100 | Auckland is among the safer large global cities, with low violent-crime context and strong institutional response. |
| Toronto | 84/100 | Toronto is among the safer large North American cities, with low violent-crime context and solid institutional response. |
| Berlin | 82/100 | Berlin has solid safety with neighborhood variation. Violent-crime context is comparatively low; opportunistic risks concentrate in transit and night-life areas. |
| London | 79/100 | London has solid safety with neighborhood variation. Violent-crime context is comparatively low; opportunistic risks are concentrated in transit and tourist hubs. |
| Paris | 78/100 | Paris has solid overall safety, with neighborhood variation and tourist-area opportunistic risks more visible than violent crime. |
| Bangkok | 78/100 | Bangkok has solid overall safety with violent-crime context comparatively low and tourist-area opportunistic risks the most visible practical concern. |
| Barcelona | 76/100 | Barcelona has solid overall safety, with violent-crime context low and tourist-area opportunistic risks the most visible practical concern. |
| New York | 74/100 | New York is mid-pack on safety: violent-crime context has improved over decades but property and incident pressure remain present in dense areas. |
| San Francisco | 72/100 | San Francisco has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation; violent-crime context is comparatively low and property-related risks are visible. |
| São Paulo | 66/100 | São Paulo has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation; resident experience differs widely across districts and time of day. |
| Nairobi | 66/100 | Nairobi has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation; resident experience differs widely across districts and time of day. |
| Mexico City | 64/100 | Mexico City has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation; resident experience differs widely across districts and time of day. |
| Cape Town | 64/100 | Cape Town has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation; resident experience differs widely across districts and time of day. |
Interpretation
Safety scoring captures violent-crime context, institutional response, and resident perception. Singapore performs at the top of the global distribution. Across the indexed cities the safety average is 81/100, so Singapore is 14 points above the median. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-05. Drawn from 2 institutional references.
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Sources
2 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: UNODC Data Portal
Used as a directional benchmark for relative city safety framing.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
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Singapore city profile
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