9Letsitele

Letsitele, South Africa: crime rate and Safety score

Safety 9 out of 10 Very low crime

9/10 in South Africa · 1/10 in the world

Compared with 1129 places in the same country (10 = lowest crime).

Weighted crime: 6,213 per 100,000 people (12 months to June 2026)

Residents: about 118,775, a WorldPop 2025 modelled estimate summed within the police precinct, not a census count.

Crime by type, as recorded by SAPS (12 months to June 2026)

Type	Count	Per 100,000 a year	All places this source covers
Homicide
Murder	8	6.7	34.6
Sexual offences
Rape	63	53	61.8
Sexual assault	6	5.1	11.6
Attempted sexual offences	6	5.1	4
Other contact sexual offences	1	0.8	1.2
Violence
Attempted murder	19	16	44.5
Assault with intent to cause serious harm	180	151.5	265.1
Common assault	97	81.7	291.2
Kidnapping	15	12.6	28.7
Abduction of a minor	0	0	0.2
Robbery
Armed or aggravated robbery	70	58.9	178.3
Includes carjacking, house and business robbery and cash-in-transit heists.
Common robbery	31	26.1	67.4
Theft and burglary
Home burglary	97	81.7	193.2
Burglary of other premises	56	47.1	66.4
Livestock theft	23	19.4	33.5
Shoplifting	2	1.7	59.8
Vehicle theft	5	4.2	45.2
Theft from vehicles	39	32.8	112.4
Other theft	114	96	354.3
Drugs
Drug offences	84	70.7	357.5
Found through police action, so it rises with policing.
Damage and public order
Public violence	1	0.8	1.6
Arson	3	2.5	4.1
Malicious damage to property	122	102.7	160.3
Other
Culpable homicide	15	12.6	15.2
Unlawful killing without intent, mostly on the roads.
Driving under the influence	54	45.5	133.3
Found through police action, so it rises with policing.
Illegal firearms and ammunition	3	2.5	24.2
Sexual offences found by police action	24	20.2	20.3
Mainly sex work offences, not attacks on a person.
Child neglect and ill-treatment	1	0.8	3.6
Crimen injuria (serious insult)	14	11.8	40.7
Fraud and commercial crime	64	53.9	228.2

Source: SAPS, updated 26 October 2026.