Neighbourhood crime security perceptions by region – 2024
Data collected by Cirrus Survey Warehouse show that Namibians have felt progressively less safe from the early 2010s to 2021, although this has improved from 2021 to the present.
In 2024, 51% of Namibians stated that they – or someone in their family – had never felt unsafe in their home or neighbourhood over the past year, up from just 41% in 2021, the worst year on record across six survey rounds.
Meanwhile, 16% of Namibians reported feeling unsafe “just once or twice” over the preceding year, while 19% said they felt unsafe “several times”. A further 7% stated “many times”, and another 7% reported feeling unsafe “always”.
When disaggregated by region, the results show significantly greater concerns of unsafety in urban areas, while concerns were notably lower in some northern regions, such as the Kavango West and Zambezi regions.
The Khomas and Hardap regions reported the highest levels of unsafety, with 48% of respondents stating that they or someone in their family had felt unsafe in their home or neighbourhood “several times”, “many times”, or “always”.
– Tannan Groenewald is the Cirrus Capital head of data and analytics.
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