Crime in Gent, Belgium
Crime rates in Gent, Belgium
| Level of crime | 26.98 | Low | |
| Crime increasing in the past 5 years | 54.77 | Moderate | |
| Worries home broken and things stolen | 25.05 | Low | |
| Worries being mugged or robbed | 21.45 | Low | |
| Worries car stolen | 13.78 | Very Low | |
| Worries things from car stolen | 26.28 | Low | |
| Worries attacked | 22.44 | Low | |
| Worries being insulted | 24.50 | Low | |
| Worries being subject to a physical attack because of your skin color, ethnic origin, gender or religion | 15.00 | Very Low | |
| Problem people using or dealing drugs | 33.00 | Low | |
| Problem property crimes such as vandalism and theft | 36.96 | Low | |
| Problem violent crimes such as assault and armed robbery | 18.15 | Very Low | |
| Problem corruption and bribery | 22.06 | Low |
Safety in Gent, Belgium
| Safety walking alone during daylight | 91.16 | Very High | |
| Safety walking alone during night | 72.22 | High |
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Last update: 12 October 2025
These data are based on perceptions of visitors of this website in the past 5 years.
If the value is 0, it means it is perceived as very low, and if the value is 100, it means it is perceived as very high.
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Brugse Poort, Muide, Nieuw Gent and Dampoort should be avoided if possible, especially at night.
Rabot has been seeing improvements as of recent but I wouldn't risk it.
Most of the areas mentioned don't really have anything noteworthy for tourists anyway so there shouldn't be any reason to go there.
The train station Gent-Sint-Pieters also attracts some weird people, but it's generally safe.
If you are at tourist places you will 100% be safe but other places outside the inner city are not that safe.
Some of these are: Brugse Poort, Nieuw Gent, Rabot, Dampoort etc.
Theres alot of drug/alcohol use and violence in these places, women tend to get raped quite a bit at night.
Good things is if you're a tourist you don't need to go to these places anyway so you probably won't encounter any of these problems.