Feelings of insecurity, worry and fear in public urban space are phenomena long recognized and researched, but inadequately reached. Fear in urban space can result in multiple responses not only on individual, but also at the levels of communities and societies. For individuals, the feelings of fear and worry can affect their movement, opportunities, trust and belonging to the community. My purpose in this research is to examine the places and situations causing insecurity to the people of Turku in the 21st century. The sample consists of hundreds of places told by 601 different participants. Participants do not represent the population adequately and therefore strong generalizations of the data cannot be made. The majority of the participants were female and over 30 years old. Open-ended survey results collected by the city of Turku were geocoded manually and analyzed through content analysis to create data to be used in spatial analyses. Points and lines were then aggregated for visualization and further analyzing with hot spot analysis to identify statistically significant clusters, proximity analysis to compare with traffic accident data and overlay analysis with landcover. Introductory spatial testing was also applied to examine and describe data in relation to sample. Places of insecurity concentrate in the city centre. Especially the main market square along with the river font of Aurajoki induce insecurity to large number of participants. In addition, large roads with heavy traffic, intersections, crosswalks and proximity of convenience stores are common places which feel unsafe. Traffic, different groups of people and concerns relating to infrastructure are reasons for uneasiness in these places. Most places feel the most unsafe during night and weekends, but especially traffic causes insecurity during rush hour. Due to many different reasons causing insecurity, making Turku feel safe for everyone is neither easy nor even possible. For many participants, fear is less related to their physical and immediate surroundings than their views on what is appropriate behavior in urban space. Security planning is linked with wide trends of privatization, fortification and securitization. What is needed instead of a more punitive approach, is tolerance towards different ways of living.