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Is Oslo safe?

What travel advice and crime statistics say about the capital.

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Short answer

Oslo is generally safe for visitors, and UK travel advice warns of a small risk of petty theft at airports and railway stations in and around the city. Oslo still has more reported crime per inhabitant than any other county: 103 offences per 1,000 inhabitants in 2025, against 62 nationally.

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Why

  1. Statistics Norway registered 74,590 reported offences in Oslo in 2025, of which 31,146 were property theft and 9,387 violence and abuse.
  2. The US State Department's travel advisory for Norway is Level 1: exercise normal precautions.
  3. The police emergency number is 112, and 02800 is the number for questions and non-urgent reports.

Details

Oslo is a county of its own in the statistics, so the figures cover the capital alone. Property theft makes up a larger share of crime in Oslo than nationally: about 42 per cent of reported offences, against about 33 per cent for Norway as a whole. The figures show where offences were reported, not how likely a visitor is to be affected.

Tip

Keep bags and phones close at airports and railway stations, such as Oslo Central Station, which UK travel advice names as places where petty theft happens.

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Sources

Information checked on 15 October 2026.

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