Safety score: 81/100 — Safe.
Marylebone safety score: 81/100. Live, independent travel-safety data.
This is the live-data view. Looking for an editorial guide with neighbourhoods to favour vs avoid, common scams, transport pointers, and a first-time-visitor checklist? Read the in-depth Marylebone, United Kingdom travel-safety guide.
| Category | Score | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Night safety | 72/100 | Risky |
| Personal safety | 75/100 | Caution |
| Transport | 85/100 | Very Safe |
| Healthcare | 90/100 | Excellent |
Marylebone scores 81/100, in the "Safe" band. Most travellers visit Marylebone, United Kingdom without incident, but the score is meaningfully below the safest cities in the world — so it pays to read the sub-scores below, follow the destination guide for neighbourhoods to favour vs avoid, and treat the standard safety advice (no flashed valuables, registered taxis only after dark, watch drink + bag at busy spots) as non-negotiable rather than optional.
Globally, a score of 81/100 places Marylebone top 30% of cities Kakapo tracks — comparable to Berlin, Amsterdam, Toronto, and Lisbon. Score bands aren't arbitrary: each is calibrated against the WHO global crime + injury database and the consolidated advisory levels of seven major Western foreign ministries.
Kakapo's Marylebone safety score is a weighted composite of personal-safety, transport, healthcare, and night-safety signals pulled from 50+ trusted sources — including national travel advisories (US State Department, UK FCDO, Canada, Australia, France, Germany), local crime indices, the WHO Global Burden of Disease for medical infrastructure, and air-quality APIs (IQAir, WAQI). Sub-scores are recalculated automatically as advisories and incident data change, so this page reflects the current state of travel safety for Marylebone, not a snapshot from months ago.
The four sub-scores — personal-safety, transport, healthcare, and night-safety — are weighted to reflect what actually matters to travellers (not residents). Personal-safety carries the largest weight because pickpocketing, scams, and after-dark crime are the highest-frequency incidents reported by visitors. Transport reflects road-traffic injury rates plus taxi/transit reliability. Healthcare grades private-clinic access and English-speaking specialist availability, not the national system as a whole. Night-safety is calibrated separately because the gap between daytime and after-dark risk varies city-to-city — sometimes by 20+ points.
Marylebone currently scores 81/100 on Kakapo's composite safety index — safe. The score weighs personal-safety, transport, healthcare, and night-safety signals from 50+ sources including national travel advisories (US State Dept, UK FCDO, Canadian government, Australian Smartraveller) and local crime indices. Most travellers visit Marylebone without incident at this score level, but you should read the sub-score breakdown and the in-depth Marylebone guide before booking.
Marylebone's night-safety sub-score is 72/100 — risky. Stick to well-lit main streets after dark, prefer registered taxis or rideshare over walking long distances, and avoid empty side streets. See the live report for the neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood breakdown.
Marylebone's composite score of 81/100 is a baseline; solo female travellers should additionally factor in the personal-safety sub-score (75/100 — caution) and the country-specific advisories for United Kingdom. The in-depth Marylebone guide on Kakapo includes a profile-adjustment view that recalibrates the overall score for solo female, family, LGBTQ+, and elderly traveller profiles — the same logic the live safety report uses.
The headline concerns in Marylebone cluster around the lowest sub-scores in the breakdown above. Open the live report for the per-source advisory text and the in-depth guide for neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood detail.
Marylebone (healthcare sub-score 90/100) has strong medical infrastructure, but travel insurance is still recommended for trip-cancellation and out-of-network specialist costs.
Kakapo recalculates city safety scores automatically as the underlying sources change — typically within 24 hours of a new national advisory, a flagged incident report, or a refreshed crime-index batch. The composite score is the weighted sum of the four sub-scores you see above; the live report explains the per-source weight and the methodology in more detail.
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Kakapo is an independent travel-safety publication. We don't sell tours, hotel bookings, or insurance — our scores and editorial guides are funded by reader support and travel-products affiliate revenue, with full editorial independence from advertisers. Every score on this page is recomputed automatically from primary sources you can verify yourself: see the methodology page for the per-source weights and the consolidated advisory feed.