Is Long Khánh safe?
Vietnam · Asia · data updated 2026-09-04
Long Khánh is a city in Vietnam, home to about 125k people, and one of 6,168 cities worldwide ranked on this site from published safety data. It currently ranks 2,902 of 6,168, with a safety score of 74.4 out of 100 - comfortably in the safer part of the ranking.
Emergency Ambulance 115 · Fire 114 · Police 113 · National search and rescue 112 · Hotline for child protection 111
No official source names specific areas to avoid here: travel advisories for Vietnam are country-level, and no published dataset covers neighborhood-level crime - so this briefing does not invent it.
How safe is Long Khánh really?
No published homicide figure exists for Long Khánh itself, so the national rate stands in: Vietnam recorded 1.5 homicides per 100,000 people in 2011 - close to the global city median. The city itself may be safer or more dangerous than its country's average. Vietnam'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.
What the travel advisories say
The US State Department currently rates Vietnam at level 1 of 4 - "Exercise normal precautions" (updated 2026-06-23). The UK Foreign Office publishes travel advice for Vietnam 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 Vietnam
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Topic headings from the official UK FCDO travel advice for Vietnam — country-level, not specific to Long Khánh. Read what each one says →
The numbers
- Homicide rate
- 1.5 /100knational rate, 2011
- Conflict deaths
- 0within 100 km, 2022-2024 (UCDP)
- Income inequality
- Gini 36.1country, 2022
- Human development
- HDI 0.766country, 2023
- Income
- $17,580/yrGNI per capita PPP · context only, not scored
- Population
- 125kurban centre · 5,009/km²
Country context for travelers
- Road deaths
- 30.6 /100kWHO, 2019 · often the biggest real travel risk
- Political stability
- 66/100World Bank WGI, 2024 · higher = more stable
- Rule of law
- 52/100World Bank WGI, 2024 · police and courts reliability
- Corruption perceptions
- 41/100Transparency International, 2025 · higher = cleaner
- Natural-hazard risk
- 3.9/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Women, Peace & Security
- 0.72Georgetown WPS Index, 2025 · 0-1, higher = better
- Air quality
- 24.8 µg/m³PM2.5 annual mean, 2023 · WHO guideline is 5
- Safely managed drinking water
- 59%of the population, 2024 · WHO/UNICEF JMP
- Healthcare capacity
- 1.1 doctors /1k2.5 hospital beds per 1,000
- Malaria
- 0 /1k at riskWHO, 2024 · listed for endemic countries only
Natural hazards in Vietnam
- Flood
- 9.9/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Cyclone
- 5.9/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Tsunami
- 5.9/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Drought
- 4.0/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Earthquake
- 3.5/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
Hazard types scoring under 1 out of 10 are not listed. These describe Vietnam as a whole, not Long Khánh specifically.
Same-sex sexual activity is legal in Vietnam (as of 2025).
All country-level figures shared by every city in Vietnam; 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 Long Khánh that gives 74.4/100. Full methodology, anchors and sources →
Long Khánh compared with Ho Chi Minh City
| Measure | Long Khánh | Ho Chi Minh City | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety score | 74.4 | 74.4 | ±0.0 |
| Homicide ratecity-measured where published, otherwise the national rate | 1.5 /100k | 1.5 /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 Vietnam, so they share every country-level figure and only the city-level ones are listed. Full report for Ho Chi Minh City →
Nearby cities
- Gia Kiệm 74.4
- Long Thành 74.4
- Phú Mỹ 74.4
- Tân Phú 74.4
- Bà Rịa 74.4
- Tân Uyên 74.4
- Vũng Tàu 74.4
- Ho Chi Minh City 74.4
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