2Dresden

Dresden, Germany: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 2 out of 10 High crime

2/10 in Germany · 7/10 in the world

Compared with 400 places in the same country (10 = lowest crime).

Weighted crime: 16,162 per 100,000 people (2025)

Crime by type, as recorded by Bundeskriminalamt (PKS) (2025)

Type	Count	Per 100,000 a year	All places this source covers
Homicide
Murder, manslaughter and killing on request	11	1.9	2.9
PKS cases: attempts are included.
Sexual offences
Rape and sexual assault, especially serious cases	119	21.1	17
PKS key 111000: only the especially serious cases (sections 177 and 178 of the Criminal Code), not all sexual offences.
Violence
Dangerous and serious assault	1,333	236	185.2
Common assault	2,968	525.4	516.1
Robbery
Robbery, including robbery of drivers	471	83.4	47.9
Theft and burglary
Theft, all kinds	17,264	3,056.1	2,155.7
Drugs
Drug offences	937	165.9	192.2
Damage and public order
Criminal damage	4,637	820.8	649.7

Source: Bundeskriminalamt (PKS), updated 26 October 2026.

9/10 Living 9 out of 10, compared with other places in the same country.

Raw score 9.6 out of 10, before ranking.

School: 30. Grundschule „Am Hechtpark“ 400 m
School: Pestalozzi-Gymnasium 620 m
School: 148. Grundschule 890 m
School: Schulcampus Pieschen 900 m
School: Gemeinschaftsschule Campus Cordis 900 m
Bus stop: Buchenstraße 400 m
Bus stop: Buchenstraße 400 m
Railway station: Dresden Bischofsplatz 770 m
Tram or metro stop: Friedensstraße 550 m
Doctor or clinic: Gemeinschaftspraxis Dr. med. Tilmann Hacker, Dipl. med. Birgit Lange 720 m
A&E: Städtisches Klinikum Dresden-Friedrichstadt 2.8 km
Supermarket: VG Bio-Markt 450 m
Supermarket: Netto Marken-Discount 560 m

Schools count by distance only: there are no inspection grades to use.