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Rákosmente (17. kerület) — Budapest, Hungary

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Average day Higher caution advised night

In detail

A large, mostly single-family-home outer district that saw a genuine, well-documented burglary wave from December 2024 into January 2025: residents on streets including Dallamos utca, Algír utca and Nemesbük utca reported repeated break-ins (crowbars on windows, fence-climbing, some incidents in daylight), and a 34,000-member local Facebook group organised informal resident street patrols in response — which themselves then created friction, including one reported incident of a volunteer aggressively pursuing an innocent commuter. Official police and neighbourhood-watch bodies had not publicly addressed the wave at the time of the main report. A genuinely current, still-unresolved property-crime concern rather than a violent one. Sources checked: Index.hu, 28 Dec 2024 (burglary wave, resident vigilante patrols); Metropol.hu, Jan 2025 (continuing burglary attempts).

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This rating comes from a structured local-source assessment. This specific area was reviewed against credible local sources — local and national news, municipal and police-published material, and official surveys where they exist — and the signals were consolidated across sources rather than taken from any single report, with the reasoning and the sources shown above. Budapest publishes no comparable neighbourhood-level crime dataset; where a city does publish one, Wandroz uses it instead of an assessment. Where a review finds nothing documented, that is recorded as no findings rather than as a safety rating.

Frequently asked questions

Is Rákosmente (17. kerület) safe?

Wandroz currently rates Rákosmente (17. kerület) in Budapest as roughly average compared to other neighbourhoods in Budapest during the day and an area where the data suggests extra caution relative to other neighbourhoods in Budapest at night. This comes from a structured local-source assessment: an area-level review of credible local sources — local and national news, municipal and police-published material, and official surveys where they exist — consolidated across sources rather than taken from a single report. Budapest publishes no comparable neighbourhood-level crime dataset; where a city does, Wandroz uses it instead.

Is Rákosmente (17. kerület) safe at night?

At night, Rákosmente (17. kerület) is rated as an area where the data suggests extra caution relative to other neighbourhoods in Budapest. If you're unsure, it's worth checking recent local reviews for your specific street or block, since a neighbourhood-wide rating can't capture block-by-block variation.

Is Rákosmente (17. kerület) a good area to stay in as a tourist?

Rákosmente (17. kerület)'s day rating (roughly average compared to other neighbourhoods in Budapest) is the more relevant one for typical daytime tourist activity; check the night rating too if you'll be out late. Note that the Booking.com link on this page searches Rakosmente, not Rákosmente (17. kerület) specifically: Booking does not list this neighbourhood as a destination of its own, so check each property's address against the map above.

Is there official crime data for Rákosmente (17. kerület)?

Not an official government crime feed — Rákosmente (17. kerület)'s rating comes from Wandroz's own current local/national press and survey research for this specific area instead (see the note on this page for what was checked and the sources used). An absence of recent negative coverage is treated as inconclusive, not as proof the area is safe. If you live in or know Rákosmente (17. kerület) well, you can suggest a correction using the link below.

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