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Safety in Domérat · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Domérat beats 91% of the 976 compared French towns closest in size on crime per resident

The rate the grade counts dropped 12% from 2023 to 2025. What’s more, violent crime here is lower than in 88% of compared French towns; burglary, vehicle theft and damage, lower than in 76%. On the record of offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Domérat from 2023 to 2025, it takes A for safety: #5 of 19 in Allier. Year on year, 3.6 violent crimes and 10.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage occur per 1,000 residents.

AViolence A⁻Burglary, vehicle theft, damage #5of 19 in Allier 84thof 976 towns its size

Violence

3.6

recorded per 1,000 residents a year · in the grade

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

10.4

burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles, criminal damage · in the grade

Theft and fraud

10.3

theft without violence, fraud, per 1,000 residents a year · Not in the grade

Drug use

recorded offenses per 1,000 residents a year · Not in the grade

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Domérat

84thof 976 towns its size, lowest rate first

Among towns its size

Among the 976 French towns of 6,000 to 11,600 people with a Safety Grade, Domérat is 84th 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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Domérat’s grade

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (3.6 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 88% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (10.4 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 76% of compared French towns

A⁻A

A fairly firm grade. Built on 357 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 8,622, a few cases more or fewer would move it between A− and A.

Hidden counts: for sexual violence, vehicle theft 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, 1.3% of the index here. What isn’t published ↓

Per resident, against the 4,295 compared French towns with a Safety Grade.

Towns its size

Towns its size: Domérat comes 84th of 976

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Grand-Santi French Guiana	9,668	4.9	1.6	A⁺
…
81	Saint-Jorioz Haute-Savoie	6,390	4.6	9.4	A
82	Fouesnant Finistère	10,436	4.7	9.3	A
83	Lanton Gironde	7,337	4.1	9.9	A
84	Domérat Allier	8,622	3.6	10.4	A
85	Laudun-l'Ardoise Gard	6,835	5.5	8.6	A
86	Le Teich Gironde	9,180	4.4	9.7	A
87	Trégunc Finistère	7,148	2.9	11.2	A
…
283	Commentry Allier	6,017	5.9	12.9	B
…
583	Bellerive-sur-Allier Allier	8,943	6.6	17.9	C⁺
…
976	Argelès-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales	10,616	21.1	40.6	D⁻

Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Domérat with every compared French town, not just towns its size.

Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Domérat and up to four from Allier.

Year by year

Domérat, year by year

Violence · per 1,000 residents

20233.7

20242.7

20254.3

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage · per 1,000 residents

202311

202411.6

20258.7

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	17	10	21
Other physical violence	Violence	8	6	15
Sexual violence	Violence	7	7	n.p.
Armed robbery	Violence	0	0	0
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	27	45	31
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	11	11	n.p.
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	56	43	42
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	31	40	40
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Fraud	Not in the grade	56	48	51
Drug use	Not in the grade	n.p.	9	8
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	0

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).

For every 1,000 residents

Crime in Domérat per 1,000 residents

ViolenceBurglary, vehicle theft, damageTheft and fraud (not in the grade)

recorded violent incidents

burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage

thefts without violence and frauds

of the three together

Each dot is one resident’s share: offenses are counted, not victims, and one person can be the victim of several.

And 10 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 10 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Fraud5.9

Criminal damage4.9

Theft without violence4.6

Burglary3.6

Family violence2.4

Other physical violence1.7

Drug use0.9

ViolenceBurglary, vehicle theft, damageNot in the gradeMedian of towns its size

None recorded in 2025: armed robbery and drug dealing. Not published for 2025: sexual violence, vehicle theft, theft from vehicles, robbery without a weapon and theft of vehicle parts.

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 2,500 to 10,000.

What isn’t published

3 kinds of crime aren’t published for Domérat

Share of the index resting on Allier averages1.3% · limit 25%

Over 25%, no Safety Grade; over 10%, the grade says it is less certain.

SSMSI doesn’t publish a commune’s count when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years), and publishes instead the average among the Allier communes whose count is hidden. That average stands in for Domérat’s hidden cells, never a zero; here it is 1.3% of the index, so the grade rests on Domérat’s own figures.

Hidden for Domérat	Years	Allier average
Sexual violence	2025	1.1
Vehicle theft	2023–2025	0.9 · 1 · 0.9
Theft from vehicles	2025	0.9

The counts SSMSI keeps back for Domérat, and what the grade uses in their place.

Neighbors

Domérat and the towns around it

PrémilhatHurielMontluçonDésertinesCommentryDomérat

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Domérat	8,622	3.6	10.4	A
Prémilhat	2,540	—¹	—¹	—¹
Huriel	2,536	—¹	—¹	—¹
Montluçon	33,147	11.9	22	D
Désertines	4,259	4.2	11.6	A⁻
Commentry	6,017	5.9	12.9	B

¹ Not graded: over 25% of the index would rest on département averages, where SSMSI doesn’t publish small counts.

Domérat’s recorded rate in the graded categories is lower than each of its 3 graded neighbors’.

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average.

How to read these numbers

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.

How the Safety Grade works in France →

Questions about safety in Domérat

Is Domérat safe?

It has less crime per resident than 86% of compared French towns: an average of 3.6 recorded violent incidents and 10.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. It grades A for safety, #5 of 19 in Allier. Among the 976 French towns of 6,000 to 11,600 people, it is 84th from the lowest rate.

Is crime going up in Domérat?

The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 12% from 2023 to 2025: 14.7 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 13 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 Domérat?

Fraud: 51 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then criminal damage (42), theft without violence (40) and burglary (31).

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.