Is Eindhoven safe for solo female travelers?

Eindhoven is generally quite safe for solo female travelers. Like anywhere else, it's always important to stay vigilant, especially at night or in less busy areas. Most locals are friendly and willing to help if you need it. Crime rates are relatively low but occasional petty thefts and pickpocketing can occur. Traveling by public transportation or biking is mostly secure. As a modern city with a large number of international students and tech companies, it is generally tolerant and open-minded.

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How safe is Eindhoven for female travelers?

Lily

Lily

France

Solo travel

I spent two weeks in Eindhoven for my first solo trip and I just loved it so much!! It’s super safe, beautiful architecture, so many animals, it’s so clean!!!! The people are really welcoming, it’s super calm but there are activities (went to a car exhibition in the center), really nice bars, it’s so nice to be able to bike everywhere! Also everything is closed (went to Amsterdam in 2h by bus)

Posted: August 9, 2025Experienced: April, 2024
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How safe is Eindhoven for women?

Local safety index

4.3 /5

Based on 22 local experiences

Local crime index

1.4 /5

Based on 22 local experiences

Eindhoven is a safe student city. There is police and also a lot of lights in the centrum. The station is overall quite clean and there is not many homeless people. Netherlands in general is very safe country. I never got attacked or felt threatened. There is some drugs abuse but you can easily spot people like that and move away if you feel insecure. I always walk back home alone at night and I never experienced any problems.

Posted: July 26, 2025
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Lucie

Lucie

By bike I feel extremely safe, but the centre especially stratum is not a great and safe place at night for girls. Overall, pretty solid though and don’t feel endangered many times. There are weird people, but in most cases they don’t do much

Posted: July 12, 2025
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Lonneke

Lonneke

Depends on where but overall it's safe but you have to be careful in dark places expectedly when you are a girl. There can be drunk ore homeless people on the streets. The normally do nothing but it can happen

Posted: June 22, 2025
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Floor

Floor

Eindhoven is just totally safe. People are easy going and everyone can just do their thing, no matter the place of time. Its similar to any other city in the Netherlands. However Eindhoven is quite smaller than for example Utrecht and Rotterdam, which gives it a more calm and peaceful vibe

Posted: June 22, 2025
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Inès

Inès

As a girl in Eindhoven, I’ve always felt super safe here! Since everyone bikes around if anything is threatening you can just bike faster. The Netherlands is overall very safe, but I worked as a bartender for a while I biked back home between 3 and 7 in the morning every week and never ever ever got any problem! The only crime that happens here is bike theft but except that it’s only really safe

Posted: June 18, 2025
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