Kulob scores 68 out of 100 (high safety) on World Safety Map, ranked 3750 of 6168 cities worldwide. The score combines the homicide rate, nearby conflict deaths, income equality and human development from published data (UNODC, UCDP, World Bank, UNDP).

Is Kulob safe?

Tajikistan · Asia · data updated 2026-09-04

67.7High · rank 3750 / 6,168
safer than 39% of ranked cities

Kulob is a city in Tajikistan, home to about 185k people, and one of 6,168 cities worldwide ranked on this site from published safety data. It currently ranks 3,750 of 6,168, with a safety score of 67.7 out of 100 - comfortably in the safer part of the ranking.

US 1/4 Exercise normal precautions

Emergency Ambulance 03 (103 from mobile phone) · Fire 01 (101 from mobile phone) · Police 02 (102 from mobile phone)

Deadliest recorded locations nearby

Raghistan district.12 deaths · 1 event
Maidan area of Kohistan district11 deaths · 1 event

UCDP-recorded organized-violence deaths within 100 km of Kulob, 2022-2024, at the locations the source itself names. Conflict deaths, not street crime.

How safe is Kulob really?

No published homicide figure exists for Kulob itself, so the national rate stands in: Tajikistan recorded 0.9 homicides per 100,000 people in 2020 - well below the global city median. The city itself may be safer or more dangerous than its country's average. Tajikistan's income inequality is middling (Gini 36.1) - in this dataset inequality predicts city violence better than any other structural factor, so this neither raises nor lowers the picture much.

Kulob also carries some conflict exposure: UCDP recorded 36 deaths from organized violence within 100 km across 17 events in 2022-2024 - a factor crime statistics alone would miss. The deadliest recorded locations in that radius were Raghistan district. (12 deaths), Maidan area of Kohistan district (11 deaths).

What the travel advisories say

The US State Department currently rates Tajikistan at level 1 of 4 - "Exercise normal precautions" (updated 2025-05-15). The UK Foreign Office publishes travel advice for Tajikistan 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 Tajikistan

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Topic headings from the official UK FCDO travel advice for Tajikistan — country-level, not specific to Kulob. Read what each one says →

The numbers

Homicide rate: 0.9 /100knational rate, 2020
Conflict deaths: 36within 100 km, 2022-2024 (UCDP)
Income inequality: Gini 36.1country, 2024
Human development: HDI 0.691country, 2023
Income: $8,240/yrGNI per capita PPP · context only, not scored
Population: 185kurban centre · 4,500/km²

Country context for travelers

Road deaths: 15.7 /100kWHO, 2019 · often the biggest real travel risk
Political stability: 61/100World Bank WGI, 2024 · higher = more stable
Rule of law: 37/100World Bank WGI, 2024 · police and courts reliability
Corruption perceptions: 19/100Transparency International, 2025 · higher = cleaner
Natural-hazard risk: 4.3/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
Women, Peace & Security: 0.69Georgetown WPS Index, 2025 · 0-1, higher = better
Air quality: 33.3 µg/m³PM2.5 annual mean, 2023 · WHO guideline is 5
Safely managed drinking water: 65%of the population, 2024 · WHO/UNICEF JMP
Healthcare capacity: 1.9 doctors /1k4.0 hospital beds per 1,000
Malaria: 0 /1k at riskWHO, 2024 · listed for endemic countries only

Natural hazards in Tajikistan

Earthquake: 8.1/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
Drought: 7.6/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
Flood: 6.6/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier

Hazard types scoring under 1 out of 10 are not listed. These describe Tajikistan as a whole, not Kulob specifically.

Same-sex sexual activity is legal in Tajikistan (as of 2025).

All country-level figures shared by every city in Tajikistan; none of them affect the safety score.

How the score works

Low homicide40%74

Peace25%61

Equality25%64

Development10%69

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 Kulob that gives 67.7/100. Full methodology, anchors and sources →

Kulob compared with Dushanbe

The nearest ranked city of comparable size. Green favours Kulob, red favours Dushanbe.
Measure	Kulob	Dushanbe	Difference
Safety score	67.7	73.1	−5.4 — better for Dushanbe
Homicide ratecity-measured where published, otherwise the national rate	0.9 /100k	0.9 /100k	±0.0 /100k
Conflict deaths within 100 km	36	4	+32 — better for Dushanbe

Differences are plain arithmetic between the two stored figures — nothing is modelled. Both cities are in Tajikistan, so they share every country-level figure and only the city-level ones are listed. Full report for Dushanbe →

Nearby cities

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