Car parks were ranked 'the most unsafe' in a new interactive map

A new interactive map shows women and gender-diverse people navigating public spaces feel most unsafe after dark and in car parks. YourGround NSW is crowd-sourcing contributions, inviting users to map how their sense of safety shapes the way they participate in public.

Car parks were ranked 'the most unsafe' Source: Getty / saulgranda/Getty Images

Key Points

• Dr Nicole Kalms, the Director of the XYX Lab at Monash University says what we know about gender and public safety usually comes from crime statistics or census data. YourGround, on the other hand, builds a picture of how people actually experience public space whether or not a crime is reported.
• More than 1,000 submissions have been collected since November, and so far they show almost three quarters of spots were pinned as "unsafe".
• YourGround resources have been translated into Arabic, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese and simplified and traditional Chinese, alongside the map's Q-R code