Paris scores 6.7/10 on overall safety. V-Dem rates France 61/100 on how equally social groups are treated in law, but institutional equality and street-level experience can differ. Here's what the data and real reviews say.
Paris scores 6.7/10, in the mostly-safe range. It is generally fine, with a few precautions depending on the neighborhood and time of day.
V-Dem rates France at 61/100 on how equally social and ethnic groups are treated in civil liberties, in the mid range. It reflects laws and institutions, not street-level experiences, which can differ by neighborhood. The reviews below add the ground-level view.
There is no global index of how safe a city is specifically for Black travelers, and we won't invent one. This page combines the city's overall safety score, a structural equality indicator from V-Dem, and, where Black travelers have reviewed Paris, their own words. Together they give a fuller, honest picture than any single number.
Every score on this page comes from official indicators and the safety model, not from AI-generated text. Where travelers who share your profile have reviewed Paris, you'll find their words below. Last reviewed 2026.
Sources: Georgetown WPS Index, Equaldex, UNESCO, World Bank, OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Wikidata (CC0) and MapSur community reviews. How we score
Social-group equality data: Social group equality in civil liberties (v2clsocgrp), v16, V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy), University of Gothenburg, via Our World in Data. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; values normalized by MapSur. Source.
Recent reviews of Paris from the MapSur community.
I was nervous about wearing hijab in France given all the media coverage but honestly Paris suprised me. Nobody stared, nobody said anything. The diversity in areas like Barbès and Saint-Denis made me…
Paris was on my bucket list forever. As a Black woman from Atlanta, I had mixed feelings. The city is gorgeous obviously but I got followed in a store near Champs-Elysées which was super uncomfortable…
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Paris scores 6.7/10 on general safety (crime, all visitors). That number doesn't capture racism specifically, so for Black travelers it's a starting point, not the answer. The structural equality indicator and the reviews from Black travelers on this page fill that gap.
It's V-Dem's measure of how equally social and ethnic groups are treated in civil liberties in France (61/100). It reflects laws and institutions, not day-to-day street experiences, which is why the reviews from Black travelers on this page matter alongside it.
