Level of crime | 24.99 | Low | |
Crime increasing in the past 3 years | 51.87 | Moderate | |
Worries home broken and things stolen | 27.01 | Low | |
Worries being mugged or robbed | 28.47 | Low | |
Worries car stolen | 23.03 | Low | |
Worries things from car stolen | 34.65 | Low | |
Worries attacked | 21.16 | Low | |
Worries being insulted | 24.09 | Low | |
Worries being subject to a physical attack because of your skin color, ethnic origin, gender or religion | 17.96 | Very Low | |
Problem people using or dealing drugs | 38.12 | Low | |
Problem property crimes such as vandalism and theft | 38.10 | Low | |
Problem violent crimes such as assault and armed robbery | 22.23 | Low | |
Problem corruption and bribery | 56.69 | Moderate |
Safety walking alone during daylight | 87.19 | Very High | |
Safety walking alone during night | 70.99 | High |
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Last update: January 2021
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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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My wife was pushed to
the ground and has her wallet and passport stolen
I can t recommend
Gangs of so called "macheteros" coming grom South America and Morocco have taken over a sizeable share of areas of the city, a friend of us was stabbed in the very down town so WATCH OUT!
mind their own business. There ARE pickpockets that are pros, so in crowds you just need to keep track of your stuff. But to highlight the difference between the violent U.S.
and Madrid/Spain, we were in a little hamburger joint the other day and a homeless drug addict walked in, looked behind the counter, opened the kitchen door and grabbed the box of money. The woman in the kitchen saw him, told him forcefully, to put it back, while waiving her finger at him. He stopped, turned around and brought it back to her. Another example, we were on the train the other day and three 20 yr olds with tattoos,very rough looking, were standing at the door waiting for the train to stop to get off and when we stood up and came near the door, they immediately stepped back to let the “mayores” (old people) have priority (I’m early 50s, hubby 60 but young and in good shape, we aren’t disabled or anything). My husband said “no, no, it’s ok” in Spanish and they smiled and said no no you go. At which point I joked about the fact we must be mayores! The young guys broke out warm grins from ear to ear. There is a kindness and value placed on human health, safety and respect that is not equaled in the gun infused United States that has lousy to no healthcare for so many. I’m daily amazed at how hard life is in the US compared to here. We have not been in the areas here that might be a bit more seedy, but even those areas, no guns.
In our way back home, other travellers in the plane told us they were mugged.
Avoid Madrid at any cost.
I had my laptop stolen, police station are overcrowded, I gave up after 1 hour waiting and queing up.
Went in a tour, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla and Madrid. Only in Madrid I was molested by an aggressive group of Argelians and a friend of mine was mugged and seriously injured.
I am afraid I can't recommend.
We stayed there 1 week spring 2019 and 7 chaps were stabbed in the street in 1 single day !
Neighbourhoods such as Malasana, Lavapie or Chueca were taken over by pickpockets and violent junkies, recently were extremely violent riots of Somalians some times fighting the police, some other fighting groups or Argelians with several seriously injured.
We could not get around alone at night since there are dangerous gangs of Moroquians chasing tourists, we won't be back.
Even the airport is unsafe, people has been stabbed there, smth I have never seen in any other European city !
Plenty of aggressive Nigerians selling fake gods in the downtown, they even dare to challenge the police, even in high street, as if we were in Lagos.
Going outdoors at night might be so dangerous.
Definitely a quite dangerous, city specially at night.
Try to bribe a cop in Spain and you get directly to jail. They are well paid, from my personal experience in Western europe, only Italian police is slightly corrupt.
As the lady of the anecdote, Jane has not known Madrid, in fact, I doubt she has not even been to Madrid or she may have been in a "Madrid" of the 35 cities with the name Madrid in the whole world: Canada (1), Chile (1), Colombia (5), Dominican Republic (1), Spain (1), Equatorial Guinea (1), Mexico (1), Philippines (2), Puerto Rico (1), Sweden (1), the United States (11), and South Africa (9) ... and you can see them all on their corresponding map.
Madrid is a populous city of 3.2 million inhabitants, which is ranked 12th among the safest cities in the world and ranked 5th among the safest cities in Europe, followed in 6th by Barcelona (Europe is the safest continent) of the world), ahead only has cities as sparsely populated as boring, Amsterdam (0.8 million inhabitants), Stockholm (0.9), Zurich (0.42) and Frankfurt (0.8).
See that: http://safecities.economist.com/safe-cities-index-2017
Lots of streets have weird men looking at you like you are a piece of meat. Pickpockets in touristic places.
Your poor friends, to me it sounds as though the hotel saw them coming and probably got them to drink in the hotel bar rather than roam the beautiful and (in my opinion) very safe streets of Madrid!