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Crime in Lisbon, Portugal
Crime rates in Lisbon, Portugal
| Level of crime | 27.78 | Low | |
| Crime increasing in the past 3 years | 56.49 | Moderate | |
| Worries home broken and things stolen | 27.73 | Low | |
| Worries being mugged or robbed | 32.60 | Low | |
| Worries car stolen | 26.27 | Low | |
| Worries things from car stolen | 42.67 | Moderate | |
| Worries attacked | 24.17 | Low | |
| Worries being insulted | 23.50 | Low | |
| Worries being subject to a physical attack because of your skin colour, ethnic origin or religion | 13.24 | Very Low | |
| Problem people using or dealing drugs | 37.97 | Low | |
| Problem property crimes such as vandalism and theft | 39.66 | Low | |
| Problem violent crimes such as assault and armed robbery | 26.36 | Low | |
| Problem corruption and bribery | 54.63 | Moderate |
Safety in Lisbon, Portugal
| Safety walking alone during daylight | 88.81 | Very High | |
| Safety walking alone during night | 65.69 | High |
Contributors: 242
Last update: November 2018
These data are based on perceptions of visitors of this website in the past 3 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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15 Comments so far
A gang of african women(with a common accent) circled me like like vultures the first few days on the metro stations, asking for help with the tickets(I clearly looked like a newbie to the city), I'm sure up to no good.
People are overall pretty hostile. I've been talked at by people I was paying service for with harshness I did never experience from even public servants. Everyone is trying to trick you into overpaying goods and services so you can never let your guard down.
There are indeed some neighbourhoods (mostly housing projects) I wouldn't like to walk around in, even during the day.
Taxi drivers are indeed hostile. I felt they were imposing themselves all along.
Beggars are quite "in your face". Then again, I can see them getting quite nasty to a weaker target.
I have some trouble believing Warsaw is more dangerous than this multicultural cesspit.
-Clavier, that's BS. Maybe you should check statistics, i live in lisbon for years. It's the most secure in western europe and it's after iceland in the list. Pickpockets and fake druggies appeared because of EU and influx of tourists. Pickpockets are a problem that should be fixed in europe, ofc.
I think, you meant "Porto"(and not "Portal"), Paul.
#a.girl: You say "Men insult women(...)behave unrespectfully...
Well, I can tell you, women are not the ONLY victims of violence and disrespect.
I'd been a victim of FEMALE VIOLENCE/BULLYING for a large part of my life!!
So let's not be a (female)shovinistics, please! Democracy doesn't work here!
Anyway, I agree with both of you to a large degree. I come from Europe and I came to New Zealand from Poland/Germany 16 years ago. However I visited Europe last time between 2012 and 2014. And I can tell you, if anything changed over there, is only INTO WORSE!
Now, as I've already mentioned I live on the Southern Hemisphere and I think I'm gonna cross Portugal off my list of places I want to visit in the near future (or even retire later on).
After reading your posts I'm a bit confused now whether Brazil is safer than Portugal or the other way around (I mean Porto Alegre for example) as I speak Portuguese well.
By the way, I still don't think that Lisbon is more dangerous than Warsaw/Poland -really!
However, now I'm seriously thinking about going to South America -not to Europe!...
Moreover in Lisbon they do not like foreigners, I mean at all, even tourists and even in tourist sites. They will try to trick you in the restaurants, will be rude to you. Try to avoid using local taxi, taxi drivers are just the rudest and quite violent.
If you are a tourist and therefore in the touristic areas (central Lisbon e.g. Marques de Pombal etc...) then you shouldn't have any problems. Anything outside of the tourist areas personally I would say is pretty unsafe. Lisbon is called a very secure city because of its tourist areas but the non tourist areas are not secure at all. People mostly get around via bus so I would recommend you do the same.
Essentially stick to central Lisbon and you'll be fine
(Also btw the drivers here are complete shit so watch out for that too)
I lived in Lisbon for a couple of months in 2015, and besides all the drug dealers trying really hard to sell you what they tell you is coke, marijuana and what not it is quite a safe city. I did however get robbed from my cellphone and 5€ one night when I was walking down Avenida Almirante Reis alone and intoxicated, but on the other hand I have forgotten my keys and my tuxedo a couple of times at local bars, nightclubs and restaurants and all I had to do was to go back the day after to get it back, no problem.
As for assaults and other types of crimes, I wouldn't worry too much. When Sweden won against Portugal in the U21 European Football Championship I walked around the city wearing a Swedish football shirt and a Swedish flag wrapped around my neck. I even went celebrating in that outfit in Bairro Alto at numerous night clubs and all I got was three comments and loads of congratulations. When I walked down the same street I got robbed at wearing a bed sheet wrapped around my body as a toga and a tree branch in my hair people asked if Jesus had come to town and everyone were simply having a good night.
The drug sidewalk thing is just for someone who can't distinguish the real deal and the tea. The street sellers are mostly gypsies and are actually selling you tea and telling you it's drugs, otherwise they'd be in jail. Sometimes they end up in jail for selling tea instead of drugs but the police can't hold them forever on those grounds.
Ah, and they sell coke too. but it's not really coke. It's flour with some dried dental gel to make your gums numb. And it pays off :)
Anywhere in the world you need to keep your eyes open.