State 5 Cities Where it is Safe to walk at Night (home, neighborhood)

[AJNEOA]

Any US city that has a good mix of primary mixed use between residential and commercial will have decent shopping after dark. IME, the following would work:

NYC
Chicago
SF
Philly
Boston

In terms of "after dark", I would assume that you don't mean at 10:30pm. I think most places in the listed cities would stay open till 8 or 9pm, but I'm not totally certain.

[BigCityDreamer]

Originally Posted by Egyptian2009

Hi Please name 5 cities where it is safe and common to walk and go for shopping after dark Thanks

Every city in the U.S. has areas that are safe to walk at night and are common for shopping.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Nobody knows. It has been decades since anybody has walked anywhere in an American city, even in the daytime.

OP, are you talking about in the downtown business area, in residential areas, in the suburbs, or in shopping malls/districts?

"After dark" can mean 5:00 pm in winter in some northern cities, which would include walking to your car after work.

wtf?

[ironcouger]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

wtf?

lol in Seattle it does get dark around 5 oclock but stores stay open late target downtown tell 10 and major department stores tell 9. The streets stay pretty busy at all hours because a large residential and hotel population downtown. Seattle almost has 70,000 people living in the city core downtown and 14,000 hotel rooms. I think the more people the safer the streets.

[JoninATX]

Originally Posted by kyle19125

Huh????

You need to get out of Texas more often.

There's people that walk around cities here in Texas, Austin and San Antonio are active with people that walk day and night. But I also see what you are saying Kyle about venturing out and visiting other places.

[f1000]

Seattle, Portland, Denver, NYC, Las Vegas (strip)

[Amercity]

Charlotte
Indianapolis
Columbus
Oklahoma City
Phoenix

Any large city that is spread out over a large area without major density of 5,000 or so in most areas i consider that it is fairly safe because the police are more cordinated and well funded and there is not a ton of places where one can hide and be certain that people will pass by.

Then again none of these cities have high walkability ratings outside of their urban core and few select neighborhoods. It would be hard to walk in these cities to shop from place to place unless you drove their in a car from your home.

[Johnbiggs]

Originally Posted by Egyptian2009

Hi Please name 5 cities where it is safe and common to walk and go for shopping after dark Thanks

Any of them, if you know how to handle yourself.

[AJNEOA]

Originally Posted by Amercity

Charlotte
Indianapolis
Columbus
Oklahoma City
Phoenix

Any large city that is spread out over a large area without major density of 5,000 or so in most areas i consider that it is fairly safe because the police are more cordinated and well funded and there is not a ton of places where one can hide and be certain that people will pass by.

Then again none of these cities have high walkability ratings outside of their urban core and few select neighborhoods. It would be hard to walk in these cities to shop from place to place unless you drove their in a car from your home.

It's been shown that more people on the streets leads to less crime, mainly because criminals don't want witnesses around (or people to try and help the victim). Higher density keeps people on the streets more consistently; eyes on the streets. Places with lower density are often safer at night if they're segregated from normal city environments like outdoor malls and suburban shopping strips (or occasional retail districts with a natural boundary). To your point, these places usually have coordinated security and police to keep people safe. However, I'm not sure this is what the OP is talking about.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by kyle19125

For privacy reasons Google airbrushes out people on the street in "StreetView", therefore not exactly a telltale sign of pedestrian activity.

You can tell they're there, they just blur their face if it is a clear enough image to identify. These look like pretty telltale signs to me:

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&l...123.97,,0,3.24

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&l...50.95,,0,13.61