Is Latvia Safe for Women? Crime Rate in Latvia
Safety rating
Women living in Latvia consider the safety level to be relatively high, with an overall safety rating of 3.9 out of 5.
Crime rating
Women living in Latvia consider the crime rate to be relatively low, with an overall crime rating of 1.8 out of 5.
Violence rating
On average 1.9% percentage of women in Latvia 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 25 experiences
Safety rating: | 3.9/5 | Safe |
Safety walking alone after dark: | 3.4/5 | Moderate |
Safety using public transport: | 4.1/5 | Safe |
Crime rate: | 1.8/5 | Low |
Worries of being sexually harassed: | 1.8/5 | A Bit Worried |
Worries of being sexually assaulted or raped: | 1.6/5 | A Bit Worried |
Worries of being physically attacked: | 1.5/5 | A Bit Worried |
Worries of home broken and things stolen: | 1.2/5 | Not at all worried |
Worries of being mugged or robbed: | 1.4/5 | Not at all worried |
Worries of being kidnapped or murdered: | 1.2/5 | Not at all worried |
How safe is Latvia?
paula
Old Riga
Old Riga is a wonderful place to be! It's always buzzing, it truly never sleeps. The area is saturated with tourists and locals alike, because the area is truly beautiful, it is right in the heart of Riga as well. It contains countless café's, restaurants, shops, museums, bars, churches, anything you could want in one place. After the sun sets, you can see how the city parties! Every bar is filled with smiles from tourists and locals alike. The most active street is Grēcinieku iela - Sinners street in direct translation. This is the only time/place I'd regard a bit dangerous, because drunk people can get rowdy, but If you don't go around swinging, they won't disturb you at all :)
Posted: January 20, 2025Riga
I would say that Riga overall is safe. Of course, I would be more careful during late night hours as I at least get a bit panicked when walking alone in the dark, especially friday night when people are out drinking. I’d say that it also depends on where you live. For example, I feel most safe in centre of Riga and in my district - Mežaparks. But there are some districts that I would not recommend staying at because they may be a bit sketchy (at least in my opinion).
Posted: January 18, 2025
Laura
Latvia
I would say that Latvia is a pretty safe country, you just have to check the places you may want to go to first so you don’t get lost, in our country the night life is safe as well, I just don’t recommend going alone, bring someone with you.
Posted: January 17, 2025
Su
Riga
I’ve been here since 2023 and actually I really feel safe. Usually there are polices around the city but even though with that I’ve never experienced anything terrified me. Of course there are some situations that you can feel uncomfortable but I think this is a little bit normal, in everywhere you’re not safe %100
Posted: January 15, 2025Riga
In Riga it depends with safety. There are some sketchy places that I wouldn’t go at night (past 10 pm) like Origo shopping centre or surrounding area like the Riga food market but before that it is totally safe because there are lot of people going home from jobs or shopping. I would say I am a bit anxious person so I always overthink and worry to much
Posted: January 3, 2025Riga
If you stay in the center side and out of the "sleeping (9-12story residential home)" areas, then you are going to feel fairly safe in Riga 24/7. The public transport and quick car rentals are safe, and there are public transport stops in <5min walking distance. Some old creepy guys catcalling are happening a lot less than 15 years ago. Youth knows English better than Russian as their 2nd or 3rd language choice, so almost everyone is able to help out if you get lost.
Posted: January 2, 2025Riga
I would say that it’s mostly safe. Of course it depends on where you are staying and where or with who do you spend time. I would say that the best places to hang out in is Rigas centre, beaches, Jūrmala, Mežaparks etc. Avoid visiting Maskačka, Ķengarags, Imanta, Iļguciems.
Posted: December 31, 2024Latvia
I think it is pretty safe in here, most of the people who like "come at ypu" do so with comments and not physically and they usually don't expect people to stand up for themselves so if you do 50/50 they'll be shocked and go away but if they don't u can ignore them. And my rating is that because I just don't trust people around me so that clouding my vision makes me feel unsafe even when there are nice people around me, so this rating might not be the real truth (it just is for me)
Posted: December 26, 2024Riga
Riga is safe overall. Even in my area, which is not the best by local rates, I feel safe. Here people are calm and less energy to do anuting. Even if you go out at night, so less people on the street. Nothong going on in this country
Posted: December 25, 2024
Samanta
Riga
In general safe and peaceful place, but we all have to be careful anywhere in the world. Like in any country, in night some stranger people will be out, but mostly you can feel same in Latvia! Would recommend to come here
Posted: December 25, 2024Is Latvia worth visiting?
Travel rating
based on 33 experiences from female travelers
wilda
Sweden
Riga, Couple travel
The locals was lovely! And was very open hearted and was very polite and friendly. They often give compliments and want to show us around. The food was very good, lovely! And the night life was funny, and it was a lot of France people there for studies.
Posted: January 14, 2025Riga, Solo travel
I felt very safe, the people were warm and helpful. They speak English well and most also speak Russian. No one bothered me, I wasn't worried about being robbed (like in Brussels or Barcelona). I recommend it.
Posted: November 12, 2024Meet locals in Latvia
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Hi I’m Klara, 30yo i work in education administration. I love to travel, learn about different cultures and languages. I’ve been in Riga for almost two years now (and love it), was in Berlin before that, Marseille, went a couple of month to Miami and a bit on Stockholm as well :) I have traveled to more places but these were I’ve stayed for a bit 😊 Happy to read about you and meet sins of you
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