Is Padua safe?
Italy · Europe · data updated 2026-09-04
Padua is a city in Italy, home to about 201k people, and one of 6,168 cities worldwide ranked on this site from published safety data. It currently ranks 437 of 6,168, with a safety score of 83.9 out of 100, which puts it in the top band of the ranking.
Emergency Ambulance 118 · Fire 115 · Police 112
No official source names specific areas to avoid here: travel advisories for Italy are country-level, and no published dataset covers neighborhood-level crime - so this briefing does not invent it.
How safe is Padua really?
No published homicide figure exists for Padua itself, so the national rate stands in: Italy recorded 0.6 homicides per 100,000 people in 2024 - well below the global city median. The city itself may be safer or more dangerous than its country's average. Italy's income inequality is middling (Gini 34.3) - 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 Italy at level 2 of 4 - "Exercise increased caution" (updated 2025-05-22). The UK Foreign Office publishes travel advice for Italy 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 Italy
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Topic headings from the official UK FCDO travel advice for Italy — country-level, not specific to Padua. Read what each one says →
The numbers
- Homicide rate
- 0.6 /100knational rate, 2024
- Conflict deaths
- 0within 100 km, 2022-2024 (UCDP)
- Income inequality
- Gini 34.3country, 2023
- Human development
- HDI 0.915country, 2023
- Income
- $62,870/yrGNI per capita PPP · context only, not scored
- Population
- 201kurban centre · 3,799/km²
Country context for travelers
- Road deaths
- 5.3 /100kWHO, 2019 · often the biggest real travel risk
- Political stability
- 71/100World Bank WGI, 2024 · higher = more stable
- Rule of law
- 68/100World Bank WGI, 2024 · police and courts reliability
- Corruption perceptions
- 53/100Transparency International, 2025 · higher = cleaner
- Natural-hazard risk
- 3.1/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Women, Peace & Security
- 0.81Georgetown WPS Index, 2025 · 0-1, higher = better
- Air quality
- 14.3 µg/m³PM2.5 annual mean, 2023 · WHO guideline is 5
- Safely managed drinking water
- 97%of the population, 2024 · WHO/UNICEF JMP
- Healthcare capacity
- 4.2 doctors /1k3.1 hospital beds per 1,000
Natural hazards in Italy
- Earthquake
- 7.7/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Flood
- 6.3/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Tsunami
- 6.1/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
- Drought
- 2.3/10EU INFORM, 2026 · higher = riskier
Hazard types scoring under 1 out of 10 are not listed. These describe Italy as a whole, not Padua specifically.
Same-sex sexual activity is legal in Italy (as of 2025).
All country-level figures shared by every city in Italy; 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 Padua that gives 83.9/100. Full methodology, anchors and sources →
Padua compared with Mestre
| Measure | Padua | Mestre | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety score | 83.9 | 83.9 | ±0.0 |
| Homicide ratecity-measured where published, otherwise the national rate | 0.6 /100k | 0.6 /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 Italy, so they share every country-level figure and only the city-level ones are listed. Full report for Mestre →
Nearby cities
- Mestre 83.9
- Verona 83.9
- Bologna 83.9
- Modena 83.9
- Reggio nell'Emilia 83.9
- Bolzano - Bozen 83.9
- Brescia 83.9
- Parma 83.9
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