In 2024, violent crime in France declined to approximately ******* recorded offenses, marking a notable drop compared to previous years. According to police crime statistics, this represents a decrease of over ****** cases from 2023, when ******* violent offenses were reported. This decline contrasts with the consistent rise in violent crime since 2016, when police recorded just ******* offenses against the person.

In 2024, more than ******* individuals in France were recorded as victims of personal violence offenses, the highest number reported since 2016.

France - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area was 14.70% in December of 2023, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for France - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area - last updated from the EUROSTAT on November of 2025. Historically, France - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area reached a record high of 22.30% in December of 2004 and a record low of 13.90% in December of 2017.

Historical dataset showing France crime rate per 100K population by year from 1990 to 2021.

In France, in April 2025, the most common type of offense reported to the police was non-violent robbery against persons, with ****** cases. Moreover, *** armed robberies were committed during that time.

France - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area: Above 60% of median equivalised income was 13.90% in December of 2023, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for France - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area: Above 60% of median equivalised income - last updated from the EUROSTAT on December of 2025. Historically, France - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area: Above 60% of median equivalised income reached a record high of 21.80% in December of 2004 and a record low of 13.20% in December of 2017.

In France, in January 2025, more than ****** crimes and offenses related to drug use were reported to the police; on the other hand, there were ***** crimes related to drug trafficking, which were also reported that same month.

In France, in June 2025, police services recorded *** homicides in the last three months. Police services also recorded more than ***** thefts involving the use of a weapon, over 13,000 thefts without the use of a weapon, and ******* non-violent thefts.

Context

This dataset is an aggregated count of all crimes committed in France, broken down by month and category.

Content

This data was aggregated by the French national government and published online on the French Open Data Portal. It is a combination of records kept by both local and national police forces. It's important to note that the name of the categories of crime are in French!

Acknowledgements

This data is a part of a larger group of Excel files published by the French Goverment on the French Open Data Portal. It has been converted to a single CSV file before uploading here.

Inspiration

This is a simple time series dataset that can be probed for trends in the underlying types of crimes committed. Is petty theft more or less popular today than it was ten years ago? How much variation is there in the amount of robberies year-to-year? Can you normalize the growth in the number of crimes against the growth in the number of people? How do crimes committed here differ from those committed in, say, Los Angeles?

This statistic contains data on the population in prisons in France: — national data on the 1st day of each quarter (distribution by age, sex, nationality, educational attainment, criminal category, quantum, crime) — national inflow data for the previous quarter (Distribution of incoming and outgoing in the quarter by reason) Prior to April 2014, these statistics were produced from manual collections from establishments. Since January 2017, they are powered by GENESIS (Management Software) data. Between these two dates, these statistics have not been published.

As of June 2024, the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights published its annual report on the state of racism in France. It appeared that racist acts maintained a similar trend when compared to the previous year, going from ******acts in 2023 to ******in 2024. Therefore, in the context of the legislative elections in June 2024 and the rise of far-right parties, the Commission stepped out and called on the French not to vote for the National Rally in the upcoming elections.

In 2024, ** percent of the victims of rape or attempted rape recorded by the French security forces were women. The proportion of men among the perpetrators of these crimes was ** percent. Regarding sexual offenses, ** percent of the victims were women, and ** percent of the perpetrators were men. It should also be noted that the older the victims, the more women are represented among them.

The Study’s Subject: The German Statistical Office of the German Empire compiled a comparative representation of different countrie’s crime statistics. In this context the statistical office was faced with the problem of diverging methodologies and classifications of the countrie’s crime statistics data collections. After World War 1 the “International Statistic Institute (ISI)” and the “International Penal Law and Prison Commission” (IPPC) ) resumed their research activities in the fields of criminal statistics in international comparison. In this context the Statistical Office of the German Empire carried out an investigation of 33 european and non-european countries with the aim to work out a comparative compilation of various criminalstatistical classifications. Is was established that at the time of preparation a comparison of different classifications a comparable international data compilation could not be gathered due to significant differences between the classifications. Finally from the 33 countries it could be compiled time series on criminal statisics only for a small selection of countries. The reason for this situation was the lack of data material for many countries. Therefore, the development of crime could be presented in form of time series for the following countries: - Austria- England and Wales- France- German Empire- Sweden- Canada- Japan In terms of the crime statistical objective data on lawsuit processes (for example the number of criminal proceedings) has not been incorporated. Furthermore, no data on the military criminal justice are included in the data compilation. The following information, which was available in the statistics, has been taken from the statistics for the data compilation: Information on the persons, who has been accused or convicted: Number of persons totally, by gender, teenagers or adults.Information on the offences the persons were accused for: accused or convicted by groups of offences or single selected offences.The sentences imposed as results of lawsuit processes are not included in this data compilation. Data tables in HISTAT (Thema: Kriminaltiät): A. Österreich (Austria) A.1 Rechtskräftig Verurteilte nach Geschlecht (Legally convicted by sex)A.2 Rechtskräftig Verurteilte wegen Verbrechen nach ausgewählten Deliktarten (Legally convicted of crimes by selected types of offences)A.3 Rechtskräftig Verurteilte wegen Verbrechen und Übertretungen zusammen nach ausgewählten Deliktarten (Legally convicted of crimes and violations by selected types of offences)A.4 Verurteilte auf 100.000 Strafmündige nach ausgewählten Deliktarten (Kriminalitätsziffern) (Convicted per 100.000 of population of the age of criminal responsibility by selected offences (crime rate)) B. England und Wales (England and Wales)B.1 Angeklagte wegen schwerer Vergehen vor Schwurgerichten und Vierteljahressitzungen nach Deliktarten (Accuesed of heavy offences at the jury court (Assizes) and at the „Quarter Sessions“ by types of offences)B.2 Angeklagte wegen schwerer und leichter Vergehen vor allen Gerichten insgesamt und vor den Gerichten für summarische Rechtsprechung (Accused of heavy offences and of petty offences at all types of courts and at courts of summary jurisdiction)B.3 Angeklagte und Verurteilte nach Geschlecht C. Frankreich (France) C.1 Verhandlungen vor Schwurgerichten (Hearings at the jury courts)C.1.1 Angeklagte vor Schwurgerichte nach Geschlecht (Accused at jury courts by gender)C.1.2 Anzahl der Verurteilten durch Schwurgerichte (Number of convicted by the jury court)C.1.3 Erhobene Anklagen nach Deliktart vor Schwurgerichten (Prosecutions by types of offences at the jury court) C.2 Verhandlungen vor Strafgerichten (Hearings at the tribunal court)C.2.1 Angeklagte vor und Verurteilte der Strafgerichte insgesamt (Accused and convicted of tribunal courts, totaly)C.2.2 Anklagen vor Strafgerichte nach Deliktarten (Prosecutions at the tribunal court by types of offences) D. Deutsches Reich (German Empire) D.1 Abgeurteilte Personen und verurteilte Personen nach Geschlecht, Jugendliche und Vorbestrafte (1882-1927) (Persons judged and convicted persons by sex)D.2 Verurteilte Personen nach Deliktgruppen (1882-1927) (Convicted Persons by types of offences)D.3 Kriminalitätsziffern der verurteilten Personen - auf 100.000 der strafm. Bevölkerung (1882-1927) (Crime rate of convicted Persons – per 100.000 of population of the age of criminal responsibility)D.4 Kriminalitätsziffern der verurteilten Personen nach Deliktgruppe - auf 100.000 der strafm. Bevölkerung (1882-1927) (Crime Rate of convicted Persons by type of offence – per 100.000 of population of the age of criminal responsibility)D.5 Die Strafmündige Bevölkerung des Deutschen Reiches (1882-1928) (Population of the German Empire of the a...

In order to promote the openness of data on delinquency and insecurity, the Ministry of Internal Security Statistics Service (SSMSI, Department of the Ministry of the Interior) has made available two annual databases on the main indicators of crimes and crimes recorded by the national police and gendarmerie, since 2016 at the municipal level depending on the place of commission. These databases are intended to be enriched as other indicators are trusted (scams, destruction/voluntary degradation, infringements of drug legislation, etc.). Two elements must be taken into account when interpreting the level of indicators: * the time limit for registration, which may create a time lag between the time the infringements occurred and the time when they are accounted for; * the complaint filing rate has an impact on the level of crime recorded. Environment and Safety Investigations are used to assess complaint rates. For example, according to these surveys on average over the period 2011-2018, only 12 % of victims of sexual violence outside the household file complaints, compared with 74 % for victims of burglaries. In addition, it should be noted that municipal data are not reported for the low values of recorded delinquency, both for reasons of interpretability of these data and respect for statistical confidentiality. Thus, when fewer than 6 crimes or offences are committed in a commune (number assessed by class of facts), they are published only if the situation persists for 3 years. The same applies to the absence of recorded facts (noted 0), which is disseminated only when the situation recurs over three successive years. Given the non-distribution of these highly volatile and sometimes geographically imprecise data, the share of delinquency events disseminated at the municipal level varies, depending on the indicator, between 59 % (for theft with arms) and 94 % (for theft without violence against persons) in 2021. 11 indicators are published, corresponding to the agglomeration of items in the standardised nomenclature called “state 4001”, used since 1971 to measure the judicial activity of services through monthly counts: 1) Voluntary Coups and Injuries on Persons 15 years of age or older, which include 2) Intra-Family Voluntary Injuries and Injuries on Persons 15 years of age or older and (3) Voluntary Injuries and Voluntary Injuries on Persons 15 years of age or older, 4) Sexual Violence, 5) Thefts with Arms, 6) Violent Unarmed Flights, 7) Theft without Violence Against Persons, 8) Housing Cambriolages, 9) Thefts of Vehicles (Automotive or Two Motor Wheels), 10) Flights in Vehicles, 11) Accessories Flights on Vehicles. Metadata Link to metadata Additional resources * Website Data.gouv.fr: https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/bases-communale-et-departementale-des-principaux-indicateurs-des-crimes-et-delits-enregistres-par-la-police-et-la-gendarmerie-nationales/ The open platform of French public data offers for download the database of the main indicators of crimes and crimes recorded by the national police and gendarmerie, at the municipal and departmental level for the whole of France. * Website of the Ministry of the Interior: https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Interstats/Publications/Interstats-Analyse/Geographie-de-la-delinquance-a-l-echelle-communale-Interstats-Analyse-N-44 The official website of the Ministry of the Interior offers for download the n°44 of Interstats Analyse, its publication dedicated to in-depth studies on topics related to insecurity and delinquency. This issue is devoted to the geography of delinquency at the communal scale. * Statistics-locales.insee: https://statistiques-locales.insee.fr/#bbox=-87880,6478122,406214,245401&c=indicator&i=ssmsi_nb_taux.tpm_cbv&s=2021&view=map1 The website of the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), dedicated to the visualisation of the indicators of the territory, allows to consult the 11 indicators per municipality throughout France (rate per thousand and number of facts)

The Life and Security Framework Surveys (CVS) were conducted annually between 2007 and 2021, with a sample of 20,000 to 25,000 households, by INSEE in partnership with the National Observatory on Crime and Criminal Response (ONDRP, deleted at the end of 2020) and the Ministry of Internal Security ([SSMSI] SSMSI, established in 2014), and characterised the “victims” of households and individuals (i.e. the crime of which households and their members may have been victims in the two years preceding the survey) through a multiple analysis: — the measurement of the number of attacks, of households victimised or of victims, of multivictimation; — the rates of filing a complaint; — identification of the profile of victims and perpetrators and the context; — the assessment of material, bodily or psychological consequences; — an analysis of the feelings of insecurity of individuals and their level of satisfaction with the action of the justice system and the security forces.

These data are distinct and complementary to those recorded by the national police and gendarmerie, as victims do not always file complaints. Combined, they provide valuable tools for assessing and analysing both delinquency and feeling of insecurity.

In order to encourage the opening of data on crime and insecurity, the SSMSI makes available on the open platform French public data 19 annual indicators of victimisation and sense of insecurity relating to metropolitan France and from CVS surveys, which are an indispensable complement to the statistics on crime recorded by the security forces (police and gendarmerie). All statistics from CVS surveys are also available on the SSMSI website: CVS surveys

** Warning:** the 2019 Victims Framework and Safety 2020 survey, scheduled for the second quarter of 2020, could not be conducted by INSEE. As a result of the measures put in place to combat the Covid-19 epidemic, INSEE was forced to interrupt its face-to-face investigations from 16 March and resumed them only from 15 July. Given the length of the questionnaire and the topics covered, it was not possible to switch the collection of the CVS 2020 survey by telephone to the timetable set. The collection of CVS 2021 was prepared and developed in order to adapt to the health situation with the possibility of a face-to-face procurement and an alternative to telephone procurement where the questionnaire was then reduced, in particular with the complete removal of the self-administered part. Developments in the health situation required a collection exclusively by telephone from 19 April to 9 June and a mixed telephone/face-to-face collection from 9 June to 26 June 2021.

From 2022 onwards, the national statistical survey Vecu and Ressenti en sécurité (VRS), conducted by the SSMSI, will replace CVS surveys (for more details: VRS survey)

Last update: February 2022 Annual update.

All crime data for Vital Signs indicators are provided by the Baltimore City Police Department. BNIA-JFI normalizes this data by population to establish crime rates. Normalizing data allows for the rates to reflect the concentration of the crime relative to the population in the area and allows for comparison between areas of different populations.

The Life and Security Framework Surveys (CVS) were conducted annually between 2007 and 2021, with a sample of 20,000 to 25,000 households, by INSEE in partnership with the National Observatory on Crime and Criminal Response (ONDRP, deleted at the end of 2020) and the Ministry of Internal Security ([SSMSI] SSMSI, established in 2014), and characterised the “victims” of households and individuals (i.e. the crime of which households and their members may have been victims in the two years preceding the survey) through a multiple analysis: — the measurement of the number of attacks, of households victimised or of victims, of multivictimation; — the rates of filing a complaint; — identification of the profile of victims and perpetrators and the context; — the assessment of material, bodily or psychological consequences; — an analysis of the feelings of insecurity of individuals and their level of satisfaction with the action of the justice system and the security forces. These data are distinct and complementary to those recorded by the national police and gendarmerie, as victims do not always file complaints. Combined, they provide valuable tools for assessing and analysing both delinquency and feeling of insecurity. In order to encourage the opening of data on crime and insecurity, the SSMSI makes available on the open platform French public data 19 annual indicators of victimisation and sense of insecurity relating to metropolitan France and from CVS surveys, which are an indispensable complement to the statistics on crime recorded by the security forces (police and gendarmerie). All statistics from CVS surveys are also available on the SSMSI website: CVS surveys ** Warning:** the 2019 Victims Framework and Safety 2020 survey, scheduled for the second quarter of 2020, could not be conducted by INSEE. As a result of the measures put in place to combat the Covid-19 epidemic, INSEE was forced to interrupt its face-to-face investigations from 16 March and resumed them only from 15 July. Given the length of the questionnaire and the topics covered, it was not possible to switch the collection of the CVS 2020 survey by telephone to the timetable set. The collection of CVS 2021 was prepared and developed in order to adapt to the health situation with the possibility of a face-to-face procurement and an alternative to telephone procurement where the questionnaire was then reduced, in particular with the complete removal of the self-administered part. Developments in the health situation required a collection exclusively by telephone from 19 April to 9 June and a mixed telephone/face-to-face collection from 9 June to 26 June 2021. From 2022 onwards, the national statistical survey Vecu and Ressenti en sécurité (VRS), conducted by the SSMSI, will replace CVS surveys (for more details: VRS survey) Last update: February 2022 Annual update.

The monthly number of crimes and offenses related to drug use varied greatly between April 2024 and June 2025. It reached a peack in August 2024 with ****** offenses recorded, before going down to ****** offenses recorded in October 2024.

In France in 2022, the legal recidivism and reoffending rate among those convicted of crimes was *** percent, a decrease compared to the previous year. Between 2011 and 2022, the recidivism rate of criminals fluctuated between *** and **** percent.

In France, in 2022, among the sexual crime cases processed by the judicial system, rape represented more than a quarter of all cases, and rape of a minor represented nearly ** percent. Sexual assaults on minors represented ********* of the total of sexual crimes processed that year.