Neighborhoods in Jūrmala

Jūrmala is a relaxed resort city that reads as safe, with a summer footfall swing that lifts petty theft on the beach and along Jomas iela in July and August. Latvia publishes crime nationally and by municipality, but Jūrmala's own municipal row is not cleanly published, so the figure below is the national picture rather than a per-area rate.

• Reported offences per 10,000 residents191Central Statistical Bureau (CSP), national figure (190.8 per 10,000); Jūrmala's municipal row (table NOR020) is not separately published in text form, 2023

Beach and terrace pickpocketing and bike theft are the intuitive summer risk, concentrated on the central Majori and Dzintari strip; serious violent crime is rare. Nothing is broken down by district.

Latvia records crime through the State Police (Valsts policija) and the Central Statistical Bureau, and publishes it nationally and by municipality, never by neighborhood, so one figure applies across a city's districts. Latvia carries the EU's highest recorded homicide rate, but that is concentrated in domestic and alcohol-related violence among specific at-risk groups rather than street crime against strangers, so read the headline with that context, and treat recorded counts as a floor rather than a danger signal.

Latvia's crime statistics come from the Central Statistical Bureau (CSP, Centrālā statistikas pārvalde) and the State Police (Valsts policija). Figures are national or by municipality, with no breakdown below municipality level.