Nouméa scores 70 out of 100 (high safety) on World Safety Map, ranked 3352 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 Nouméa Safe? Safety Score 70/100 — New Caledonia

Is Nouméa safe?

New Caledonia · Oceania · data updated 2026-09-04

70.4High · rank 3352 / 6,168
safer than 46% of ranked cities

Nouméa is a city in New Caledonia, home to about 124k people, and one of 6,168 cities worldwide ranked on this site from published safety data. It currently ranks 3,352 of 6,168, with a safety score of 70.4 out of 100, placing it clearly above the global midpoint.

US 2/4 Exercise increased caution

Emergency Ambulance 15 · Fire 18 · Police 17

No official source names specific areas to avoid here: travel advisories for New Caledonia are country-level, and no published dataset covers neighborhood-level crime - so this briefing does not invent it.

How safe is Nouméa really?

No published homicide figure exists for Nouméa itself, so the national rate stands in: New Caledonia recorded 3.1 homicides per 100,000 people in 2009 - close to the global city median. The city itself may be safer or more dangerous than its country's average.

What the travel advisories say

The US State Department currently rates New Caledonia at level 2 of 4 - "Exercise increased caution" (updated 2026-05-20). The UK Foreign Office publishes travel advice for New Caledonia 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.

The numbers

Homicide rate: 3.1 /100knational rate, 2009
Conflict deaths: 0within 100 km, 2022-2024 (UCDP)
Income inequality: no datacountry,
Human development: no datacountry,
Income: no dataGNI per capita PPP · context only, not scored
Population: 124kurban centre · 2,001/km²

Country context for travelers

Road deaths: no dataWHO · often the biggest real travel risk
Political stability: 85/100World Bank WGI, 2024 · higher = more stable
Rule of law: 76/100World Bank WGI, 2024 · police and courts reliability
Corruption perceptions: no dataTransparency International · higher = cleaner
Natural-hazard risk: no dataEU INFORM · higher = riskier
Women, Peace & Security: no dataGeorgetown WPS Index · 0-1, higher = better
Air quality: no dataPM2.5 annual mean · WHO guideline is 5
Safely managed drinking water: 97%of the population, 2024 · WHO/UNICEF JMP
Healthcare capacity: 2.0 doctors /1khospital beds: no data

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

How the score works

Low homicide40%52

Peace25%100

Equality25%no data

Development10%no data

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 Nouméa that gives 70.4/100. Full methodology, anchors and sources →

Nouméa compared with Brisbane

The nearest ranked city of comparable size. Green favours Nouméa, red favours Brisbane.
Measure	Nouméa	Brisbane	Difference
Safety score	70.4	83.1	−12.7 — better for Brisbane
Homicide ratecity-measured where published, otherwise the national rate	3.1 /100k	0.7 /100k	+2.4 /100k — better for Brisbane
Conflict deaths within 100 km	0	0	±0
Income inequality (Gini)	no data	33.8	—
Human development (HDI)	no data	0.958	—
Road deaths	no data	4.9 /100k	—
Rule of law	76/100	82/100	−6/100 — better for Brisbane
Corruption perceptions	no data	76/100	—
Air quality (PM2.5)	no data	6.4 µg/m³	—
Natural-hazard risk	no data	2.4/10	—

Differences are plain arithmetic between the two stored figures — nothing is modelled. Country-level rows describe the two countries, not the cities themselves. Full report for Brisbane →