Kiez score: recorded crime

Source

Provider

Own calculation from open sources (Sources & licences)

Licence

dl-de/zero

Data as of

June 2026

Objects

542

Values

Scale

Higher = more recorded cases per resident, not a measure of personal risk and not a judgement of a “good” or “bad” Kiez.

Calculation

Recorded crime per Bezirksregion: frequency rate (cases per 100,000 residents) of selected housing-relevant offences, equally weighted (0.20 each): neighbourhood offences (Kieztaten), residential burglary, vandalism, street robbery/bag snatching, bicycle theft. For each offence the 3-year average (2023–2025), from which the weighted index is derived, normalised to 0–100 (300 → 0, from 1,750 → 100). The upper limit caps city-centre outliers (government quarter, Alexanderplatz) whose frequency rate is overstated by tourists and commuters. The values are only available per Bezirksregion and are mirrored onto the planning areas it contains (constant within the Bezirksregion). A separate dimension outside the overall score, structural context like the social situation. Higher means more recorded cases, not a safety ranking.

Aggregation

LOR Bezirksregion

Maintenance

navigator.berlin (own calculation from the Berlin crime atlas (Kriminalitätsatlas Berlin), Berlin Police)

Update frequency

annually (Kriminalitätsatlas, reference date 31 Dec)

Gaps in coverage

• Granularity Bezirksregion (143), coarser than the five dimensions native to planning areas.
• The frequency rate relates cases only to registered residents, not to tourists, commuters or customers: inner-city hotspots appear overstated.
• Unreported crime: only reported cases, and reporting behaviour varies by location.

Not included

• Crime scene principle: only cases with an exact crime scene, pickpocketing excluded.
• No statement on personal risk and no rating as a “safer” or “more dangerous” Kiez.