Officially recorded crime for every département - 96 in total - with rates per
1,000 residents, on an interactive map you can zoom from the whole country down to street level.
Data period: calendar year 2025. Sources: SSMSI (Ministère de l'Intérieur) communal crime base · Etalab boundaries.
Safest areas in France
Cantal - 24.6 crimes / 1,000 residents
Lozère - 30.1 crimes / 1,000 residents
Creuse - 30.8 crimes / 1,000 residents
Aveyron - 31.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
Haute-Loire - 31.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
Highest recorded crime
Paris - 119.8 crimes / 1,000 residents
Bouches-du-Rhône - 81.2 crimes / 1,000 residents
Rhône - 78.6 crimes / 1,000 residents
Seine-Saint-Denis - 75.5 crimes / 1,000 residents
Hérault - 66.6 crimes / 1,000 residents
Read the numbers honestly. Rates are per 1,000 residents, so city centres
and tourist areas look worse than they feel - many visitors, few residents. Recorded crime is not the same as how
safe a place feels, and recording practices differ between countries, so compare within France only.