The (Un)warranted Fear of Crime in Germany

Recorded crime, law enforcement and the public's sense of safety — for Germany as a whole and for each federal state.

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Sources. BKA Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik (state table 2025, Federal Statistical Office (population, nationality) and the Working Group on National Accounts of the Länder (GDP, disposable income); (rounds 1–11, own calculation, weighted); Eurostat (crim_off_cat); GISCO/Eurostat for the map geometry (CC BY 4.0).

Liwiths. Recorded cases are incidents that came to police attention — not proof that an offence occurred and not a conviction. State-level fear figures come from pooled survey rounds with small case numbers per state; reliable and unreliable values are marked separately. Group comparisons are bivariate and unadjusted.

Map illustration in the header: Vecteezy (vecteezy.com), credit as required by the Vecteezy free licence.

Created by Christopher Vantis with Hermes (AI assistant). Choice of questions, interpretation and verification of results lie with the author; research, analysis and implementation emerged in dialogue with the assistant. Mistakes would be annoying — corrections are welcome.