Pont-de-Vaux stands out for vehicle theft: 6.4 times the rate of a typical town its size
Starting from the least crime, it comes 329th of the 711 compared French towns nearest in size. Each year brought 6.4 violent crimes and 12.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage for every 1,000 residents. Weighing it all, Pont-de-Vaux earns B for safety, with less crime per resident than 62% of compared French towns, on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded over 2023 to 2025.
Offenses recorded per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average (INSEE population of each year). Violence, and burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and criminal damage, count equally.
What stands out about safety in Pont-de-Vaux
Criminal damage fell sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 22 cases of criminal damage in Pont-de-Vaux in 2023 and 9 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
Counted where it happens
1,350 jobs are based in Pont-de-Vaux, for 900 working residents. Offenses are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents, so a town people come into for work and shops records more per resident than one they leave. How to read it ↓
Among towns its size
Among the 711 French towns of 1,500 to 3,000 people with a Safety Grade, Pont-de-Vaux is 329th from the lowest recorded rate per resident. Towns its size ↓
Written from the SSMSI and INSEE data on this page. Figures are offenses police and gendarmerie recorded, not convictions.
Inside Pont-de-Vaux’s B for safety
A less sure grade than most. Built on 95 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 2,204, a few cases more or fewer would move it between C and A. 24.5% of the index uses the département’s average for crimes not published here, over 10%.
Hidden counts: for family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery, burglary and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 24.5% of the index here. What isn’t published ↓
Per resident, against the 4,295 compared French towns with a Safety Grade.
What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025
Well above the median of towns its size: vehicle theft (4.5 per 1,000 against 0.7), family violence (6.4 per 1,000 against 3.4) and fraud (8.6 per 1,000 against 5.7). None recorded in 2025: robbery without a weapon. Not published for 2025: sexual violence, armed robbery, burglary, theft from vehicles, theft of vehicle parts, drug use and drug dealing.
Theft without violence, robbery without a weapon, theft of vehicle parts, fraud and drug offenses are shown for information but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence plus burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and criminal damage per resident.
Per 1,000 residents in 2025; the tick is the median of the graded French towns of 1,000 to 2,500.
Crime in Pont-de-Vaux per 1,000 residents
Each dot is one resident’s share: offenses are counted, not victims, and one person can be the victim of several.
And 13 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 13 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Of 711 towns its size, Pont-de-Vaux is 329th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charquemont Doubs | 2,900 | 4.2 | 4.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 83 | Péron Ain | 2,916 | 2.9 | 10.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 115 | Fareins Ain | 2,533 | 2.6 | 12 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 117 | Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne Ain | 2,934 | 4.1 | 10.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 150 | Frans Ain | 2,582 | 4.2 | 11.2 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 326 | La Calmette Gard | 2,604 | 3.1 | 15.8 | B |
| 327 | Saint-Louis-de-Montferrand Gironde | 2,051 | 4 | 15 | B |
| 328 | Levroux Indre | 2,797 | 6 | 13 | B |
| 329 | Pont-de-Vaux Ain | 2,204 | 6.4 | 12.7 | B |
| 330 | Saint-Florent Haute-Corse | 1,694 | 5 | 14.1 | B |
| 331 | Port-Sainte-Marie Lot-et-Garonne | 1,887 | 7.9 | 11.2 | B |
| 332 | Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts Pyrénées-Orientales | 2,311 | 5.2 | 13.8 | B |
| … | |||||
| 711 | Roissy-en-France Val-d'Oise | 2,674 | 120.7 | 203.7 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Pont-de-Vaux with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Pont-de-Vaux and up to four from Ain.
The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 27% per resident from 2023 to 2025
Violence · per 1,000 residents
Burglary, vehicle theft, damage · per 1,000 residents
| Kind | In the grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family violence | Violence | n.p. | 5 | 14 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | n.p. | n.p. | 9 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Armed robbery | Violence | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 5 | 8 | 10 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 22 | 13 | 9 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 16 | 6 | 7 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | n.p. | 0 | 0 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 19 | 21 | 19 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
Counts mix units, as SSMSI publishes them: victims for violence, offenses for burglary and damage, vehicles for vehicle theft. That’s why the page never adds them into one “total crimes”.
Offenses recorded each year. n.p.: not published (small: five or fewer in at least one of the last three years).
Pont-de-Vaux and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pont-de-Vaux | 2,204 | 6.4 | 12.7 | B |
| Feillens | 3,411 | 3.7 | 7.4 | A+ |
| Bâgé-Dommartin | 4,050 | 3.7 | 9.5 | A |
| Tournus Saône-et-Loire | 5,701 | 15 | 28.5 | D− |
| Replonges | 3,956 | 2 | 16 | B+ |
| Mâcon Saône-et-Loire | 35,177 | 11.4 | 20.1 | C− |
| Charnay-lès-Mâcon Saône-et-Loire | 8,227 | 4.2 | 11.5 | A− |
4 of its 6 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Pont-de-Vaux.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where offenses happen, not where victims live. SSMSI counts each offense in the commune where police or gendarmerie recorded it happening. Towns with shops, stations, a hospital or nightlife record more per resident, and visitors are part of that count but not of the population it is divided by.
- An index, not a total. The kinds are counted in different units (victims, offenses, vehicles), so the grade adds their rates per 1,000 residents into an index and never shows a “total crimes” or a chance of being a victim.
- Hidden counts. SSMSI doesn’t publish a commune’s count when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years). In its place it gives the average among the département’s communes whose count is hidden; the grade uses that average, never zero, and a town gets no Safety Grade when over a quarter of its index would come from such averages.
- Recorded, not all crime. Only offenses reported to or found by police and gendarmerie are counted. Reporting rates differ by kind: most vehicle thefts are reported, much family and sexual violence isn’t.
Questions about safety in Pont-de-Vaux
Is Pont-de-Vaux safe?
It has less crime per resident than 62% of compared French towns: an average of 6.4 recorded violent incidents and 12.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. It grades B for safety. Among the 711 French towns of 1,500 to 3,000 people, it is 329th from the lowest rate. With 1,350 jobs for 900 working residents, Pont-de-Vaux draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
Is crime going up in Pont-de-Vaux?
The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 27% from 2023 to 2025: 17.9 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 22.7 in 2025. In a town this size a few dozen cases move the figure, so the grade uses the three-year average.
What is the most common recorded offense in Pont-de-Vaux?
Fraud: 19 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then family violence (14), vehicle theft (10) and other physical violence (9).
Sources: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 (base communale de la délinquance enregistrée, 2026 edition) · INSEE, legal populations for each year · INSEE, census 2023 (jobs and working residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.