About Chile Safety Map
ischilesafe.com is a bilingual (English and Spanish) information resource that presents official crime statistics for Chile. Our goal is to make publicly available government data accessible and clearly presented — without editorial verdicts about which places are "safe" or "dangerous".
What this site shows
The site combines two layers of information:
- Quantitative layer: Official crime incidence statistics from CEAD (Centro de Estudios y Análisis del Delito), the Chilean government's crime statistics body. Data covers 346 communes across Chile, with annual series from 2005 onward. We display rates per 100,000 inhabitants, trends over time, and comparisons across communes and regions.
- Qualitative layer: Recent incident reports extracted from Chilean news RSS feeds and categorised by crime type and location. These appear as map pins and link back to the original news sources.
Both layers are served as pre-rendered static HTML, indexed by search engines in both English and Spanish.
The data source: CEAD
CEAD — Centro de Estudios y Análisis del Delito is Chile's official crime statistics body, operated under the Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Pública. CEAD compiles police-recorded incident data from Carabineros de Chile and the Policía de Investigaciones (PDI).
We access CEAD data via their public endpoints and process it through an open-source pipeline that validates data integrity, maps communes to standard CUT codes, and computes per-capita rates. The processed data is stored as versioned JSON in this project's public GitHub repository. This provides full auditability: you can inspect exactly what data was downloaded and how it was transformed.
For more detail on how we calculate rates, define trends, and handle underreporting, see the Methodology page.
Editorial mission: sobriety
Crime data is politically and socially charged. Our editorial rule is: present the numbers, attribute the source, and do not make verdicts.
We do not classify any commune, city, or region as "safe" or "dangerous" in absolute terms. We do not publish probability-of-victimisation figures. We do not compare Chile to other countries using incompatible reporting standards. We present relative reported incidence and let you draw your own conclusions.
Every statistic on this site cites its source. Every news incident pin links to the original article from a named outlet. We do not paraphrase without attribution.
Who we are
ischilesafe.com is an independent project. It is not affiliated with CEAD, the Chilean government, or any law enforcement agency. For questions or feedback, use the Contact page.