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

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.

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 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.

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.

Historical dataset showing St. Martin (French part) crime rate per 100K population by year from 2011 to 2016.

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?

Historical dataset showing French Polynesia crime rate per 100K population by year from 2006 to 2009.

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.

This chart shows the distribution of people involved in homicide cases in France in 2022, by nationality. It displays that ** percent of individuals accused of homicide in France were French.

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.

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.

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.

The homicide rate in France for 2021 was **** homicides per 100,000 people. During the provided period the homicide rate was highest in 1993, when there were **** homicides per 100,000 population.

The Study’s Subject:

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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.

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.

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.