Residential burglary in Europe: country by country
In the latest year available, the European countries with the highest rate of domestic burglary were Denmark (370.9 per 100,000 people), Sweden (319.9) and Belgium (311.5). By number of cases the top three are France (202,894), Italy (155,590) and Spain (81,094): a high count also reflects population size, not just risk.
How many home burglaries the police record in each European country relative to population, and how that has changed since 2019. Each country shows its latest available year.
Highest values: per 100,000 people
All the data
| Denmark | 370.9 | 22,112 | −38.4% | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 319.9 | 33,756 | −5.3% | 2024 |
| Belgium | 311.5 | 36,815 | −25.4% | 2024 |
| Switzerland | 307.7 | 27,576 | +23.1% | 2024 |
| France | 295.5 | 202,894 | 2024 | |
| Italy | 263.8 | 155,590 | −4.5% | 2024 |
| Spain | 166.8 | 81,094 | −20.4% | 2024 |
| Netherlands | 117.0 | 20,995 | −48.6% | 2024 |
| Iceland | 99.3 | 381 | 2024 | |
| Slovenia | 94.6 | 2,010 | −21.8% | 2024 |
| Germany | 94.0 | 78,436 | −10.5% | 2024 |
| Romania | 76.2 | 14,532 | −10.8% | 2024 |
| Portugal | 74.1 | 7,881 | −30.6% | 2024 |
| Finland | 74.0 | 4,144 | −10.0% | 2024 |
| Malta | 72.6 | 409 | −50.7% | 2024 |
| Austria | 69.6 | 6,372 | −29.9% | 2024 |
| Greece | 57.9 | 6,007 | −32.6% | 2024 |
| Croatia | 56.8 | 2,193 | −40.0% | 2024 |
| Bulgaria | 51.8 | 3,337 | −35.1% | 2024 |
| Czechia | 41.0 | 4,470 | −33.1% | 2024 |
| Poland | 38.2 | 13,983 | −23.0% | 2024 |
| Estonia | 36.4 | 500 | −19.7% | 2024 |
| Serbia | 35.4 | 2,337 | −50.2% | 2024 |
| Türkiye | 35.1 | 29,976 | −56.3% | 2024 |
| Latvia | 24.4 | 458 | −54.5% | 2024 |
| Lithuania | 23.9 | 691 | −59.2% | 2024 |
| Albania | 21.3 | 589 | −47.2% | 2023 |
| Slovakia | 15.4 | 836 | −15.3% | 2024 |
How to read these figures
- These are police figures: they count burglaries reported and recorded, not all that happen.
- Eurostat warns that definitions and counting rules differ between countries: compare levels with caution; the trend within one country is more reliable.
- The UK appears split into England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Source: Eurostat, Recorded offences by offence category - police data (crim_off_cat) · Licence: CC BY 4.0 · Data retrieved on