Women who walk alone in their local area after dark and feel safe

3.4 Gender equality, positive relationships, and positive masculinities are promoted across the community including in faith-based, sporting, entertainment, educational institutions, digital spaces, the arts, and media organisations.

Increased general feelings of safety.

Proportion of women who walked alone in their local area after dark and felt safe in the last 12 months.

An increase in general feelings of safety across the community would indicate a greater perception that prevention initiatives are effective in keeping people and communities safe. 

2021–22

The number of women who walked alone in their local area after dark in the last 12 months and felt safe.

Data element: Person—feelings of safety
Data source: ABS PSS
Data source type: Survey

The number of women who walked alone in their local area after dark in the last 12 months.

Data element : Person
Data source: ABS PSS
Data source type: Survey

This measure is the number of people who felt safe walking alone at night in their local area in the last 12 months expressed as a proportion of women who walked alone in their local area after dark in the last 12 months.

100 x (Numerator/Denominator)

For each reference period, nationally, by: 

• state and territory
• age
• country of birth
• disability status
• sexual orientation
• remoteness.

A person who was walking with their dog was considered to be walking alone. 
A person’s perception of their own safety in the community can be affected by many individual-level and community-level factors, and may vary across geographic areas.
Statistics will not be reported if they have a high relative standard error and are considered too unreliable to measure changes over time.

For some population groups, numbers may be too small to be reported on separately.  
Where the RSE for numbers and estimates is between 25% and 50%, this will be indicated in the data visualisation and any accompanying data tables. Where the RSE is greater than 50%, the data will not be published.