2024 burglary statistics released: see data per department in France

A new government document on departmental crime has been released that shows the incidence of crimes from burglaries to vehicle theft to attempted homicides.

It includes various departmental maps showing the levels of the different types of crime across the country. 

They were compiled and published by the interior ministry statistics service le Service statistique ministériel de la sécurité intérieure (SSMSI). This is the second annual edition which was released on January 31.

Statistics are sourced from publicly-available data on the data.gouv.fr website, the SSMSI states, and also comes from reports from the police and gendarmerie nationale.

The maps use results for what the SSMSI calls ‘the 17 main indicators of delinquency’, including:

• Non-armed burglary

• Armed robbery

• Attempted murder

• Grievous bodily harm

• Domestic violence

• Arrests due to drugs

• Vehicle thefts

The 324-page document also includes changes year-on-year, the number of recorded victims of the given crime per 1,000 residents, and department comparisons.

The full document, including all maps and tables of data, can be downloaded from the Interior Ministry website here (download link at the bottom of the text).

Armed robbery

For example, looking at armed robbery:

The figures for mainland France overall were 0.10 per 1,000 inhabitants for 2024, a drop of 2.26% from 2023.

Burglaries and vehicle thefts

Another map shows the number of burglaries per 1,000 residential properties in 2024, by department:

Among the worst mainland departments are (all with more than 7.5 infractions per 1,000 homes, above the national average of 5.9):

• Gironde

• Haute-Garonne

• Indre-et-Loire

• Bouches-du-Rhône

• Vaucluse

• Isère

• Rhône

• Ain

• Cher

• Seine-Saint-Denis

The mainland departments with the fewest infractions (fewer than 2.4 per 1,000 homes), are: 

• Hautes-Alpes

• Lozère

• Cantal

Overall, the figures show that the number of house burglaries decreased from over 250,000 in 2016, to around 220,000 in 2024.

Stolen vehicles

A similar map shows the number of stolen vehicles per 1,000 residents in 2024, by department.

Among the worst mainland departments are (all with more than 2.6 stolen vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants, above the national average of 2.0):

• Nord

• Loire-Atlantique

• Bouches-du-Rhône

• Drôme

• Isère

• Rhône

The mainland departments with the fewest infractions (fewer than 1.1 per 1,000 inhabitants), are: 

• Ariege

• Hautes-Pyrenees

• Gers

• Tarn-et-Garonne

• Tarn

• Aveyron

• Lozère

• Cantal

• Haute-Loire

• Dordogne

• Correze

• Haute-Vienne

• Creuse

• Puy-de-Dome

• Sartes

• Orne

• Manche

• Côtes-d’Armor

• Juta

• Côte-d’Or

• Haute-Saone

• Haut-Rhin

• Bas-Rhin

• Vosges

• Moselle

The document also shows the number of thefts from vehicles.

There are also maps showing figures for:

• Destruction and vandalism

• Number of people arrested for illegal use of drugs

• The number of victims of scams and fraud

Police station locations

The document also has maps showing - for example - the nationwide locations of police stations, and gendarmerie brigades (see below).

There is also a map showing how far a given area is from the nearest police or gendarmerie station, by car journey (from five minutes to more than 30 minutes).

The document also analyses figures for each region, with separate pages for each, and figures for each crime listed by region and department. These pages start from page 58 in the PDF, with each region listed alphabetically.

There are also sections for the French Overseas Departments.