76
% of adults who feel safe walking alone at night, 2024
Moderate trust, 77 of 100 All the counted sources are of one kind (perception survey), so they share the same blind spots.
All countriesAll of United Kingdom's figures
United Kingdom among 143 countries
42 have a higher figure and 98 a lower one. Definitions differ between countries, and their years run from 2024 to 2024.
What this number counts
- Counts
- Share of adults who say they feel safe walking alone at night where they live
- Where
- United Kingdom
- When
- Gallup 2024, ESS 2023 (one survey)
Where the number comes from (3 sources)
| Source | Figure and year | Definition | Quality | Counts for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gallup Global Safety Report 2025, safe walking alone at nightGallup, Inc. · Perception surveyRetrieved 2026-10-26 | 762024 | Share of people aged 15 and older answering yes to "Do you feel safe walking alone at night in the city or area where you live?" in the Gallup World Poll, 2024.Sample: 1,000 telephone interviews, fieldwork May 13 - Jun 14, 2024; Gallup gives a maximum margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 points. Gallup publishes whole percentages. Raw file: Gallup_Global-Safety-Report-2025.pdf, table "Safe to Walk Alone at Night (% Yes), 2024", printed page 22 (PDF page 24), row "United Kingdom". Sample details: World_Poll_Dataset_Details_022026.pdf (https://www.gallup.com/file/services/177797/World_Poll_Dataset_Details_022026.pdf), PDF page 228. | 3 of 5 checks
| 63% |
European Social Survey Round 11, safe walking alone after darkEuropean Social Survey (ESS ERIC) · Perception surveyRetrieved 2026-10-26 | 81.72023 | Share answering "very safe" (28.49%) or "safe" (53.2%) to "How safe do you - or would you - feel walking alone in this area after dark?" (answers: very safe, safe, unsafe, very unsafe), among people aged 15 and older in private households with a valid answer (1,671 respondents in the portal's table), weighted by the ESS post-stratification weight (pspwght).Fieldwork for Round 11 ran between March 2023 and December 2024 depending on the country; the ESS labels the round 2023. The question is about "this area after dark" and includes people who never go out alone ("or would you"), so it is close to but not the same as Gallup's question. Read from the ESS Data Portal variable viewer for aesfdrk, ESS11 integrated file edition 4.2 (chart point labels, two decimals; the page's data table shows the same values to one decimal). Copy of the page values: raw/feeling-safe-at-night/ess/aesfdrk_chart_points.txt. | 5 of 5 checks
| 37% |
51.82026 | Numbeo Safety Index for United Kingdom (51.8), which is 100 minus Numbeo's Crime Index (48.2).Numbeo builds both from answers by visitors to its website to questions about crime and safety, scored from -2 to +2 and scaled to 0-100, using answers from the past five years. It is an index, not a share of people, so it is shown but not counted. Raw file: rankings_2026mid.html (Numbeo "Crime Index by Country 2026 Mid-Year"), row "United Kingdom". | 1 of 5 checks
| Not counted |
- Gallup63%
- ESS37%
Shown but not counted: Numbeo (measures something else).
How the trust score was worked out
- Quality29.9 / 40
How well the sources are made
- Agreement25.5 / 30
How close the sources are to each other
- Independence12 / 20
How many separate ways the number was measured
- Freshness10 / 10
How recent the newest data is
Who reports it, and since when
No source of these kinds: victim survey.
- Blind spot: every counted source is the same kind
- ESS: no figure here after 2023, while others reach 2026
figure no figure here, inside its range no later figure recorded change
Why the numbers differ
- Question wording: Gallup asks a yes-or-no question about feeling safe walking alone at night in the city or area where you live. The ESS asks how safe you feel, or would feel, walking alone in this area after dark, with four answers, and this page counts "very safe" and "safe" together.
- Sample frames: Gallup usually interviews about 1,000 people aged 15 and older per country, by phone or face to face, and leaves out some areas (often insecure or remote regions) and, in Gulf states, people who cannot answer in the interview languages. The ESS interviews random samples of people aged 15 and older living in private households. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Women and men answer very differently. Gallup reports that in 2024 67% of women and 78% of men worldwide said they feel safe, a gap of 11 points, with a gap of 10 points or more in 104 of 144 countries. In the United States the gap is 26 points (58% of women feel safe); in Italy 44% of women and 76% of men do. A country's overall share depends on how these groups are weighted. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Timing: Gallup's figures come from interviews in 2024; ESS Round 11 interviews ran from 2023 into 2024.
- Numbeo's Safety Index is built from answers by self-selected website visitors over five years and is a score, not a share of people, so it is shown for reference and not counted.
Common mistakes
- Feeling safe is not the same as low crime. How safe people feel depends on more than crime, and a country can rank high on feeling safe while recording many homicides, or the reverse. Compare it with recorded crime, such as the homicide rate, before drawing conclusions. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Numbeo's Safety Index is not the share of people who feel safe. It is a 0-100 score built from website visitors' answers. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
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