Is Alcalá de Henares safe?
Spain · Europe · data updated 2026-09-04
Alcalá de Henares is a city in Spain, home to about 177k people, and one of 6,168 cities worldwide ranked on this site from published safety data. It currently ranks 217 of 6,168, with a safety score of 85.3 out of 100 - among the safest cities in this dataset.
Emergency 112 (ambulance, fire, police)
No official source names specific areas to avoid here: travel advisories for Spain are country-level, and no published dataset covers neighborhood-level crime - so this briefing does not invent it.
How safe is Alcalá de Henares really?
The most direct evidence is measured in the city itself: Alcalá de Henares recorded 0.5 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2022 - well below the global city median. Spain's income inequality is middling (Gini 33.4) - in this dataset inequality predicts city violence better than any other structural factor, so this neither raises nor lowers the picture much.
What the travel advisories say
The US State Department currently rates Spain at level 2 of 4 - "Exercise increased caution" (updated 2025-05-11). The UK Foreign Office publishes travel advice for Spain without any avoid-travel warning in force. Both advisories are country-level: no official source publishes verified neighborhood-level crime guidance for individual cities, which is why this page reports named areas only where an official source names them.
What to watch out for in Spain
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Topic headings from the official UK FCDO travel advice for Spain — country-level, not specific to Alcalá de Henares. Read what each one says →
The numbers
- Homicide rate
- 0.5 /100kcity-measured, 2022
- Conflict deaths
- 0within 100 km, 2022-2024 (UCDP)
- Income inequality
- Gini 33.4country, 2023
- Human development
- HDI 0.918country, 2023
- Income
- $59,830/yrGNI per capita PPP · context only, not scored
- Population
- 177kurban centre · 6,331/km²
Country context for travelers
- Road deaths
- 3.9 /100kWHO, 2019 · often the biggest real travel risk
- Political stability
- 66/100World Bank WGI, 2024 · higher = more stable
- Rule of law
- 73/100World Bank WGI, 2024 · police and courts reliability
- Corruption perceptions
- 55/100Transparency International, 2025 · higher = cleaner
- Natural-hazard risk
- 2.5/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Women, Peace & Security
- 0.86Georgetown WPS Index, 2025 · 0-1, higher = better
- Air quality
- 10.1 µg/m³PM2.5 annual mean, 2023 · WHO guideline is 5
- Safely managed drinking water
- 100%of the population, 2024 · WHO/UNICEF JMP
- Healthcare capacity
- 4.3 doctors /1k2.9 hospital beds per 1,000
Natural hazards in Spain
- Flood
- 6.4/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Tsunami
- 4.6/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Drought
- 3.1/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Earthquake
- 2.9/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
Hazard types scoring under 1 out of 10 are not listed. These describe Spain as a whole, not Alcalá de Henares specifically.
Same-sex sexual activity is legal in Spain (as of 2025).
All country-level figures shared by every city in Spain; none of them affect the safety score.
How the score works
One fixed, calibrated mix for every city: 40% homicide · 25% peace · 25% equality · 10% HDI. Homicide and conflict deaths are measured outcomes; income inequality carries the structural share because it predicts real city violence far better than national income (which is shown above but scored at zero). Each factor maps to 0-100 against fixed anchors, missing data drops out and is never estimated, and cities with data behind less than half the weighting get “no data” instead of a score. For Alcalá de Henares that gives 85.3/100. Full methodology, anchors and sources →
Alcalá de Henares compared with Madrid
| Measure | Alcalá de Henares | Madrid | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety score | 85.3 | 85.3 | ±0.0 |
| Homicide ratecity-measured where published, otherwise the national rate | 0.5 /100k | 0.5 /100k | ±0.0 /100k |
| Conflict deaths within 100 km | 0 | 0 | ±0 |
Differences are plain arithmetic between the two stored figures — nothing is modelled. Both cities are in Spain, so they share every country-level figure and only the city-level ones are listed. Full report for Madrid →
Nearby cities
- Torrejón de Ardoz 85.3
- Madrid 85.3
- Valladolid 82.7
- Salamanca 82.7
- Burgos 82.7
- Albacete 82.7
- Logroño 82.7
- Zaragoza 82.7
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