Chile Crime Map — Reported Incidence by Commune
This interactive map shows reported crime incidence across Chile's 346 communes, coloured by rate per 100,000 inhabitants. Data comes from CEAD (Centro de Estudios y Análisis del Delito), the Chilean government's official crime statistics body. All figures represent police-reported incidents — not actual crime prevalence, which is higher due to underreporting.
Use the map to compare communes by crime family (property crime, intra-family violence, homicides, and more) and by year. Clicking a commune opens its detail card with the latest rate and national rank.
What the Map Shows
Each commune polygon is coloured across five incidence levels — from the lightest teal (lowest reported rate) to the deepest red-brown (highest reported rate). The colour scale is based on quintiles of the non-low-population commune distribution for the selected year, so the mid-range always represents the median commune.
A commune's reported rate measures police-recorded incidents per 100,000 registered inhabitants. According to CEAD data for 2025, approximately 256 communes in Chile have populations large enough to be included in national rankings. Communes below 10,000 inhabitants are excluded from the colour scale due to statistical volatility — their small populations mean a single incident can produce an outsized per-capita rate.
How to Use the Map
The layer panel (top-left) lets you switch between crime families: total, property crime, intra-family violence, and homicides. The year selector (top-right) changes the data year from 2005 onward. Hovering a commune shows its name and rate; clicking opens a detail card with the national rank and a trend indicator.
For a full multi-year series and crime-type breakdown, click through to any commune's detail page from the map card, or search by name using the search bar.
Interpreting the Data
Rates per 100,000 inhabitants depend on the population denominator, which comes from INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas) projections. Communes with large floating or commuter populations — such as Santiago's historic centre — may appear to have higher rates because their daytime population is much larger than their registered resident count. This is a structural limitation of population-based crime rates, not a data error.
This site does not classify any commune as "safe" or "dangerous" in absolute terms. The map visualises reported incidence relative to other Chilean communes, using official data as-is. For a full discussion of methodology, data sources, and what these figures cannot tell you, see the Methodology page.
Data Source
All map data comes from CEAD — Centro de Estudios y Análisis del Delito — which aggregates police-reported incident data from Carabineros de Chile and the Policía de Investigaciones. CEAD publishes updated annual figures each year; the latest complete year reflected in this map is 2025. Regional and national totals on the CEAD website represent sums across communes (not per-capita averages); this site computes per-capita means correctly for comparative purposes.
For the underlying data files and scraper code used to generate this map, see the Methodology page and the project's public GitHub repository.