The historic core — Gravensteen, the Graslei, Sint-Baafs — and where visitors stay. Ghent publishes crime figures by wijk and by month as open data, and its police report two consecutive years of decline: 31,074 recorded offences in 2025, down 3,418 or 10% on 2024. Pickpocketing fell from 1,026 cases to 564 — a drop of 45% — and burglaries, bicycle thefts and thefts from cars all fell sharply too. Snatch thefts went from 168 to 122. The one thing the police do localise is shoplifting, and its hotspots are exactly the shopping streets: Veldstraat, Korenmarkt and Langemunt. For a visitor that means crowds and shops rather than risk. This is a green that rests on published figures moving in the right direction, not on an absence of news.
Gent — Ghent, Belgium
🟡 Local-source safety assessment · 14 areas reviewed individually Methodology →
No concerns found Safety level (no day/night split in the source data)
In detail
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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. Ghent 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 Gent safe?
Wandroz currently rates Gent in Ghent as an area where the review found nothing traveller-relevant to report. 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. Ghent publishes no comparable neighbourhood-level crime dataset; where a city does, Wandroz uses it instead. The source data has no day/night breakdown, so this single rating applies at any time of day rather than being a distinct night-specific figure.
Does Gent's rating differ between day and night?
No — Gent's source data has no time-of-day breakdown, so the same rating (an area where the review found nothing traveller-relevant to report) is shown for both day and night rather than Wandroz inventing a separate night figure it doesn't actually have.
Is Gent a good area to stay in as a tourist?
Gent's day rating (an area where the review found nothing traveller-relevant to report) 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 Ghent, not Gent 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 Gent?
Not an official government crime feed — Gent'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 Gent well, you can suggest a correction using the link below.
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