Santiago Safety Map — Reported Crime by Commune

Santiago Commune vs. Greater Santiago

It is important to distinguish between the commune of Santiago (the historic centre, bounded roughly by Autopista Central, Avenida Matta, and the Mapocho River) and Greater Santiago, which spans roughly 40 communes and millions of residents. The commune of Santiago is a high-density commercial and transit hub with a large daily floating population — its per-resident rate tends to be higher than surrounding residential communes partly because many more people pass through it each day than are registered there.

According to CEAD data for 2025, Santiago commune's rate of 9,309 per 100,000 is approximately 60 % above the national mean, which stands at 5,808 per 100,000 inhabitants. This gap is a structural feature of central-district population dynamics, not necessarily a reflection of conditions in residential Santiago communes.

Commune Variation Across the Región Metropolitana

Eastern residential communes — Las Condes, Vitacura, Lo Barnechea, Providencia, and Ñuñoa — consistently report lower rates relative to the national mean, according to CEAD data. Communes with large commercial corridors, transit hubs, or industrial zones tend to report higher rates. The map lets you filter by crime family to see whether property crime, intra-family violence, or other categories drive a particular commune's total.

Santiago commune's reported rate has been trending stable in recent years according to CEAD data. Individual communes may diverge from this metropolitan trend — the year slider on the map reveals year-by-year changes.

How to Use This Map for Santiago

To focus on the Región Metropolitana: zoom the map to central Chile, or use the search bar to locate a specific commune by name. The colour scale reflects quintiles of the national non-low-population commune distribution — a lighter teal indicates a lower rate relative to the rest of Chile, not an absolute measure of risk.

Click any commune polygon to open its detail card with the current rate, national rank, and trend indicator. For a full multi-year series and crime-family breakdown, follow the link to the commune detail page.

Interpreting the Data

All rates use registered resident population as the denominator. Communes with large floating populations (commuters, shoppers, tourists) show higher per-resident rates as a structural effect. Property crime accounts for the largest share of reported incidents in most Santiago communes; intra-family violence is the second most reported category.

This site does not classify any commune as "safe" or "dangerous" in absolute terms. The map shows relative reported incidence based on official CEAD data. For a full explanation of methodology, underreporting caveats, and what these figures cannot tell you, see the Methodology page.

Data Source

All data comes 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 latest complete year reflected in this map is 2025. CEAD data represents reported incidents; actual crime prevalence is higher due to underreporting across all crime categories.