Chilean Communes with Lowest Reported Crime Incidence
This page lists Chilean communes that reported the lowest crime incidence per 100,000 inhabitants according to CEAD (Centro de Estudios y Análisis del Delito) data for 2025. The ranking is derived from official police-reported incident data and covers only communes with populations of 10,000 or more — smaller communes are excluded because a single incident can produce an outsized per-capita rate at low population sizes, making comparisons statistically unreliable (DATA-04).
Important caveat: A low reported rate reflects fewer police-recorded incidents per resident, not an absolute guarantee of safety. Underreporting varies across crime categories and localities. This ranking does not claim to identify the "objectively safest" places to live — it represents a snapshot of official reported data for 2025. See the Methodology page for a full explanation of what these figures do and do not measure.
Communes with Lowest Reported Incidence per 100,000 Inhabitants
The following table lists the 15 communes with the lowest reported crime rates among published communes with populations of at least 10,000, according to CEAD data for 2025. All figures are rates per 100,000 registered inhabitants. Communes are sorted by rate in ascending order — lowest reported first.
| # | Commune | Region | Rate per 100k (2025) | National Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lo Barnechea | Metropolitana | 2,678 | 256 |
| 2 | Maule | Maule | 2,849 | 255 |
| 3 | Vitacura | Metropolitana | 3,208 | 254 |
| 4 | Las Condes | Metropolitana | 3,223 | 253 |
| 5 | La Cruz | Valparaíso | 3,354 | 252 |
| 6 | Chiguayante | Biobío | 3,382 | 251 |
| 7 | Punta Arenas | Magallanes | 3,512 | 250 |
| 8 | Padre Las Casas | La Araucanía | 3,512 | 249 |
| 9 | Villa Alemana | Valparaíso | 3,595 | 248 |
| 10 | Coelemu | Ñuble | 3,614 | 247 |
| 11 | Ñiquén | Ñuble | 3,666 | 246 |
| 12 | Calle Larga | Valparaíso | 3,672 | 245 |
| 13 | Hualqui | Biobío | 3,758 | 244 |
| 14 | Chépica | O'Higgins | 3,799 | 243 |
| 15 | Peñalolén | Metropolitana | 3,822 | 242 |
Source: CEAD (Centro de Estudios y Análisis del Delito), data for 2025. Rate = police-reported incidents per 100,000 registered inhabitants. National rank 1 = lowest reported rate among all non-low-population communes in Chile.
How to Interpret This Ranking
According to CEAD data for 2025, the commune at the top of this list reported approximately 2,678 incidents per 100,000 inhabitants — compared with the national mean of 5,808 per 100,000. This difference reflects lower reported police-recorded incidents, not necessarily lower actual crime prevalence.
Several factors can produce a low reported rate without reflecting objective safety:
- Underreporting: In smaller communities, victims may be less likely to file police reports, particularly for property crime and intra-family violence. The gap between actual incidence and reported incidence (the cifra negra) is not uniform across communes.
- Population denominator: Communes with large commuter or tourist populations will show inflated per-resident rates; communes that export workers to nearby cities will show lower per-resident rates. The ranking excludes communes below 10,000 inhabitants for this reason, but population dynamics affect all sizes.
- Crime type composition: A commune with low property crime but elevated intra-family violence may still rank low on the total rate. The commune detail pages break down rates by crime family for each year.
This ranking is not a definitive guide to where to live or travel. It is a transparent presentation of official data for 2025, intended to help you understand the distribution of reported crime across Chilean communes.
Trend Context
A commune's position in this ranking can shift year to year. Some communes in the lowest- reported-incidence tier have been trending downward in recent CEAD data; others have been stable or rising. The interactive Chile Crime Map lets you explore year-by-year changes from 2005 to the most recent complete year. Individual commune detail pages show the full series and a trend indicator derived from the last three years of CEAD data.
Data Source and Methodology
All rates on this page come from CEAD — Centro de Estudios y Análisis del Delito — which compiles police-reported incident data from Carabineros de Chile and the Policía de Investigaciones. The rate per 100,000 is the measure published directly by CEAD and uses INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas) population projections as the denominator.
Communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants are excluded from this ranking. Their individual detail pages are available but not included in national comparisons because statistical volatility at small population sizes makes per-capita rates unreliable for ranking purposes.
For the full rate calculation, underreporting discussion, trend formula, and explicit statement of what this site does not claim, see the Methodology page.