Prism SafeTrip

Travel safety for India, the USA, the UK and Canada

Know a place before you go.

A plain-language safety read for 3,400+ cities and districts, built from local crime news, police records, the political climate and the local economy.

Popular
Places scored
3,400+
Local news reports read
7M
National police datasets
4
News coverage
2016–2026

Safety map

Every place we score, at a glance

Each dot is a city or district, coloured by its safety score against the rest of its country. Bigger dots have more news coverage. Tap one to open its full read.

India

–places scored
–with police crime figures
–local news reports
  • Safer than most places60–100
  • About typical40–59
  • Take extra care20–39
  • High caution0–19

Scores rank each place against others in the same country, so a 70 in India and a 70 in the UK are not on the same scale.

Major cities

The most-covered places in India

What we check

Six signals, one score

No single source tells the whole story. Police records miss crimes that never get registered, and the news over-covers big cities. So we read both and compare each place with its own country.

Crime in local news

Which crimes dominate local reporting (murder, rape, kidnapping, theft, communal violence) and how that mix compares with the country's.

Police-recorded crime

Official crime rates from NCRB, the FBI, police.uk and Statistics Canada, set against the national rate.

Political climate

How often political statements about the area use religion or caste, measured against the median of developed democracies.

Enforcement

How often crime stories end with an arrest, a charge or a verdict, and how many reported incidents turn deadly.

People and industry

Population and registered businesses per head, from the census and national company registers.

Research on the area

Published studies that name the place and deal with crime or safety, linked to the original paper.

Road trip?

Check every town on your route.

Enter where you start and where you're going, or share directions from Google Maps. We score every town and district you pass, flag the weakest stretch, and count police stations, hospitals and fuel stops along the way.

How to read a score

A rank, not a promise

It's a percentile

A score of 70 means the place reads safer than 70% of the places we track in the same country. 50 is the middle.

We compare the mix, not the volume

Big cities get far more news. We compare what share of a place's local news is violent crime, so size alone doesn't sink a score.

Indicative, not a guarantee

Scores describe patterns in reporting and records over the last decade. Use them to decide where to take extra care, alongside local advice.

Why do big US cities score so low?

Each score ranks a place against every place we track in its country, and most of those are smaller towns with less violent crime. A big city can be safe in most neighbourhoods and still rank low on the whole. The full read shows police-recorded rates next to the national rate, so you can see the size of the gap.

Where does the data come from?

Local and national news reports from 2016 to mid-2026; police-recorded crime from NCRB (India), FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (USA), police.uk, the Home Office and the Scottish Government (UK) and Statistics Canada; population and business counts from national censuses and company registers; and open scholarly records for research.

My town isn't listed. Why?

We only score places with enough local news coverage for a fair read. Try the district or the nearest larger city; on the route check, small towns borrow their district's record.

Low recorded crime but lots of crime news. Which is right?

Often both. In places where many crimes are never registered with police, official figures stay low while the press keeps reporting incidents. The full read flags this when it happens.