In Germany? Only villas in very rich residential areas.
"Normal houses" very rarely have alarm systems here.
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How many normal houses in the US have an alarm system? I cannot think of a single friend of mine who has an alarm system. Some live in Chicago, some live "in the country".
I guess I remember a friend's parent that had an alarm system, which oddly was one of the few houses I know of that was broken in to. I think the burglar cut the alarm wire on entry and got a bunch of stuff.
A surprising number of them do. I lived in a house that came with one because the previous owner was a woman who often worked very late and was nervous about coming home alone at midnight. I signed up for the monitoring because it was only about $25/month and homeowner's insurance gave discounts because of it.
My uncle does, not by choice but because his house was robbed about ten years ago, and the insurance company refused to renew his policy unless he installed one.
We do, and many of our neighbors do. We are in a fairly quiet neighborhood of Washington, DC, but there are holdups now and then, auto thefts, and burglaries.
Nearly everyone I know has one.