How safe do you generally feel on the streets

Not at all. DD and I live on the edge of a bad estate. It's overrun with idiot teenagers wearing balaclavas. I thought it wasn’t so bad because we were on the outside edge until a couple of months ago when we witnessed two young teenagers jumping over a wall after setting a "summer house" on fire in someone's back garden. The flames were higher than the actual house.
Then the same kids and a gang of others posed for photos in front of the fire engine that came out.
I am so annoyed that she has never been able to "play out" as I did at her age. These kids, teens and much younger terrorise the estate. They put people's front room windows in with bricks at random. The police won't come out. They steal from the local Supermarket and/or trash aisles. This has led to a ban on letting any kids wearing the particular school uniform close by because they're causing it.
Oh course, the parents are up in arms about that on Facebook. They have no control over their kids.
The whole of Wirral is at the mercy (or lack of) balaclava'd kids who the police won't deal with. Liverpool is a whole other issue, because those kids and adults don’t just carry knives but guns too.
It makes me feel like everything's gone to hell in a hand basket. And you don't dare challenge bad behaviour, that makes you and your home an instant target.
There's literally no police provision able to deal with this. I’m aware that this issue is widespread throughout the country.

As I'm in Australia, so my safety isn't relevant to this thread but an observation is.
Events get reported when X goes missing, then again if there's a terrible outcome, then again when the perpetrator is arrested, then again when it goes to trial, then again for sentencing, then again at appeal.

It magnifies the frequency as it were, a heightened sense of danger when the objective facts say it's not.

Having said, that young men are more likely to be attacked outside the home than women, so the OP's concerns are not unfounded.

@mondaytosunday makes excellent points.

You hear about because of the media is all invasive now. If you haven't seen it on theTV it's been pinged into your phone news feed or someone has posted about it on FB or on Mumsnet.
Unless you want to have your child locked in the house you are going to have to give them freedom and trust that what you have taught them will have sunk in.
One exercises common sense. No you don't cut through a dark park on your way home. You don't wear earphones at night. You don't walk along engrossed in your phone.

I feel fine

Completely safe

Pretty safe. We live close to a city centre, and I walk or cycle everywhere, day and night. DS walks to and from school, and meets his friends in the city centre.

Stop focusing on the negatives and ‘what ifs’ and relax. There is no point worrying about things that are beyond your control and that you can’t influence.

They don't report the tens of millions of people who go about their daily lives in complete safety.

Incredibly rare events give a very misleading impression of actual risk.

I did feel safe. Work in a school in Herts nice area.
Came home from airport last night on train and walked the 10 minutes walk home.

So many dodgy things happening and a bad vibe so found myself rushing.
Did not feel good at midnight

There are but DD is as likely as I am to end up in a bad situation. So I did what I can to keep her safe and prepared. Things like knowing first aid, being a competitive swimmer growing up and completing pool and beach lifeguard clubs so she's as safe as can reasonably be as we live near the beach and it's a big part of our life.

Her friends are lovely and sensible but she went out with friends over the Halloween weekend so we had a chat about what to do if other people were being unsafe with fireworks either her group or others. She can be naive as they idea of playing with fireworks was pretty alien to her and I'm not sure she believed me that people prat around with them etc.

I am in London and feel safe. So do my DC. Except for phone theft.
Maybe we are deluded. Would rather live this way though. DC go everyehere on the Tube and have since their teens.

I feel safe enough unless I go to the dodgy areas of the town I'm in.

What sickens me is the filth and rubbish everywhere, I'm sure it's getting worse.
And the parking, Christ alive, the drivers these days are fucking utter cunts.... If you park on a path and don't think about wheelchairs and pushchairs, fuck you.

Completely safe.

I feel very safe actually. Far more decent people than not.