Austria crime statistics for 2024 released: crime increased by 1%, but more cases solved. Homicide rate remains low, but much more youth crime. (1 Viewer)

[Tender Branson]

Here is the report - an English summary is at page 114:

https://www.bundeskriminalamt.at/501/files/PKS-24-web3_bf_20250414.pdf

There were 76 murder victims last year. The country had ca. 9.2 million people last year (like New Jersey), so the homicide rate was 0.8 per 100.000 people.

If Austria were a US state, it would have the lowest murder rate, because every state has at least a rate of 1.5 (NH) or higher, up to 15 per 100.000 (Louisiana). The US average is around 6 murders per 100.000 people.

Vienna (2.1 million people) had 31 murders, for a rate of 1.5 per 100.000 people.

Dallas, a city with a similar population, had 183 murders last year, and a 6x higher homicide rate as a result.

 

[Tender Branson]

My state (Salzburg) has a population of 570.000 people and only 3 murders, a murder rate of just 0.5 per 100.000 (among the lowest rates on the planet).

There are cities in the US with the same population size, but 3 murders per week ...

 

[Tender Branson]

Austrian murders range between 50-100 per year, last year it was 76 ... so in between.

In the 1970s and 1980s, murders here were at 100 to 150, with a population 2 million lower.

So, the murder rate has gone down a lot because of better profiling, DNA testing, better psychological services and a stricter handgun law.

 

[Tender Branson]

Unlike in the US, a majority of Austrian murder victims are always women.

In the US, men account for 2/3 of murder victims.

The reason for this is that Austria has hardly any gangs who commit murders (there are a few mafia-style murders each year though, but nothing like in the US or Sweden, which has seen a big increase since it let in millions of Muslim immigrants in the past 25 years).

 

[Tender Branson]

Only 7% of murder victims last year in Austria (5 of 76) were killed with a handgun.

In the US, 75-85% of murder victims are killed with a handgun each given year.

Strict gun laws clearly work, as you can see with these statistics.

 

[Tender Branson]

Almost half of all crime supects that were caught or determined to have committed a crime last year were of a foreign citizenship.

So, every 2nd crime suspect is a foreigner, depite the foreign share in the overall population of Austria "only" being 20%.

Which means foreigners have a much higher crime rate than locals.

The number and share of foreigners among crime suspects has been rising sharply in recent years, especially among Syrians and Afghans.

There are 100.000 Syrians in Austria now, and 11.000 crime suspects from Syria have been determined last year, so statistically-speaking every 9th Syrian here was a crime suspect.

Among Afghans, it's even worse: 50.000 Afghans here and 6.500 crime suspects, so every 8th a crime suspect with an Afghan citizenship.

Youth crime, especially immigrant youth crime, has almost doubled in the past 7-8 years ... which is a major concern and could be an indicator for the future. If we cannot properly integrate all these Muslim kids that came in the past 10 years, we are in for a big problem in the next decades.