Summary

This question asks participants about their sense of safety in Australia. This is important because safety is significant contributor to a sense of belonging and social connectedness for young people.

Details

Response Options: The response options included: 1) very safe, 2) safe, 3) unsafe, and 4) very unsafe.

Response: 1,772 respondents answered this question.

Results: Just under two-thirds (62.4%) of the sample said they feel safe or very safe when walking alone at night in their local area. This means over one-third (37.6%) feel either unsafe (29.2%) or very unsafe (8.4%). This is a similar finding to the Scanlon Foundation's Social Cohesion surveys in which 66.3% of the general population said they feel safe or very safe and just less than one-third (28.9) feel unsafe or very unsafe.
Feelings of safety also have a statistically significant relationship with gender - females were 3.7 times more likely to feel unsafe than males.

Below is a breakdown of the responses:

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