Is Croatia Safe for Women? Crime Rate in Croatia
Safety rating
Women living in Croatia consider the safety level to be very high, with an overall safety rating of 4.7 out of 5.
Crime rating
Women living in Croatia consider the crime rate to be relatively low, with an overall crime rating of 1.6 out of 5.
Violence rating
On average 4.4% percentage of women in Croatia have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner at some time in their life, according to OECD Data.
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Crime & Safety Statistics
Based on 59 experiences
Safety rating: | 4.7/5 | Very Safe |
Safety walking alone after dark: | 4.5/5 | Very Safe |
Safety using public transport: | 4.7/5 | Very Safe |
Crime rate: | 1.6/5 | Low |
Worries of being sexually harassed: | 1.3/5 | Not at all worried |
Worries of being sexually assaulted or raped: | 1.1/5 | Not at all worried |
Worries of being physically attacked: | 1/5 | Not at all worried |
Worries of home broken and things stolen: | 1/5 | Not at all worried |
Worries of being mugged or robbed: | 1/5 | Not at all worried |
Worries of being kidnapped or murdered: | 1/5 | Not at all worried |
How safe is Croatia?
Brigita
Zagreb
Zagreb is really one of the safest cities for travelers, no matter of sex or age, by opinion of many people and media. I've been living in Zagreb since 2020 and have never had a negative experience regarding personal safety.
Posted: February 20, 2025
Paola
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia so here we have people who came from other countries. Because of the politics and bad things happening in the world, in the last two years we gained a good amount of people coming here from Nepal, Afganistan and Pakistan. I personally don’t feel safe seeing them in my town because big number of them are men.
Posted: February 19, 2025
Buga
Zagreb
I feel completely safe walking anywhere anytime, sometimes I get nervous if it is dark and someone is walking towards me but nothing ever happened to me. Keep in mind that I rarely feel unsafe even outside of my hometown, so maybe that is just my interpretation of the city.
Posted: February 12, 2025
Tarin
Općina Sveti Petar u Šumi
Općina Sveti Petar u Šumi is a smaller place it’s more like I village so people have a lot of animals but it’s also evolving so we have new houses and apartments. We are quite turisticaly evolved every year there are a lot of houses and appartments booked for stay. People usually like to enyoj the pools that most of the houses have and also explore entire Istria in its glory. Sveti Petar u Šumi is the center of Istria it is sorounded with forests but has all new roads is easaly conected with entire Istria from the bottom to the top. Its an ideal place for peace and quiet in the country side but is half an hour drive to the sea, best restoruants, agroturisms, beautifull vinerys, coasts and mountains. Overall it’s a small and calm place where turists are more than wellcome also safe.
Posted: February 11, 2025
AyÅŸe
Rijeka
Silent and safe place, but after dark, some people who are using drugs or something doing crazy things, and it is a little bit scary. In public transportation, someone tries to stay closer to you and touches mistakenly (?) Also, it is a boring city. If compared with other places in Croatia.
Posted: February 2, 2025Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a very touristic place but the locals are hospitable and friendly. People are trustworthy. I have never had anything to worry about from the local people here. But I would like to say that in the summer there are a lot of people from different countries here.
Posted: January 29, 2025
Ema
Croatia
Croatia is a small country and one of the safest ones. You can walk at night carefree. You don't have to be afraid that someone will robe you. The crime rates are very minimal and there is no kidnapping or murdering.
Posted: January 26, 2025
Patricija
Rijeka
It's safer than a lot of other cities I've lived in. Personally, I feel safe walking both in the daytime and nighttime, and I've never been harassed or assaulted while out or on public transport. But, some female friends have told me that they have been catcalled by construction workers and one of them has been groped by an old man while on the bus, but a young man stepped in and told the assaulter to move unless he wanted the same experience.
Posted: January 22, 2025Patricija
Croatia
It is one of the safest countries I've been in. I can't say I've never experienced harassment, I have been catcalled once or twice, but that's about as bad as it gets. Public transport is safe, honestly the scariest part about it is how much and how often it's late.
Posted: January 22, 2025
Martina
Jelsa
Jelsa is a small place where everyone knows everyone. The people are warm, relaxed and I would say initially uninterested in strangers, but always ready to help and talk whenever you approach them. In my life I have never heard of anything happening that would make me say that Jelsa is unsafe.
Posted: January 19, 2025Is Croatia worth visiting?
Travel rating
based on 99 experiences from female travelers
Pula, Solo travel
Beautiful beaches, the citadel is so beautiful as well. Very sunny and amazing city. The people there are super friendly and will randomly say hi to you on the street. Very safe even for a solo female traveller.
Posted: February 16, 2025Experienced: February, 2025Croatia, Group travel
I was on a small island with a few other girls, we never had issues with safety (apart from sunburn😅). For about 7 days we spent around 600€ each including travel costs, shared accomodation and food.
Posted: February 4, 2025Experienced: June, 2024Meet locals in Croatia
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