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Number of crimes in Sendai City, and Miyagi Prefecture

2021.03.16

Is Sendai city safe?
The graph below shows the changes in the security situation (number of criminal law offenses recognized) in Sendai City over the past 10 years.
The number of crimes has decreased every year for the past 10 years, it relatively dropped to 50% in 10 years in both Miyagi Prefecture and Sendai City.

The number of crimes that occurred last year was 10,193 in Miyagi prefecture and 5,580 in Sendai city, but the high ratio of Sendai city is due to the influence of the population ratio.

The number of murder cases is around 10 per year, which is almost flat for 10 years.
There are only a few cases of using guns a year.

The reason for the decrease in crime is the strengthening of crime prevention and raising public awareness in the Miyagi Prefectural Police and other districts, but the nature of crime may have changed.
Fraud cases using the Internet instead of violence are on the rise.

Looking at this data, I think you can get a glimpse of the safety of living in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture.

Let’s live together as a member of Sendai citizens.