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Safety in Linay · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Crime recorded in Linay, and why it isn’t graded

Linay falls under the 1,000-resident floor for a Safety Grade, where a few incidents would move its rate a long way. Of the counts published for 2025, criminal damage is the largest, at 6. The published counts for Linay come next.

Graded kinds published
2 / 8
in 2025; the rest are hidden
Criminal damage
27.3
per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average

Published counts only: a département average appears only in the list of what isn’t published.

Year by year

What was recorded in Linay, year by year

KindIn the grade202320242025
Family violenceViolencen.p.n.p.n.p.
Other physical violenceViolencen.p.0n.p.
Sexual violenceViolencen.p.n.p.n.p.
Armed robberyViolence000
BurglaryBurglary, vehicle theft, damagen.p.n.p.n.p.
Vehicle theftBurglary, vehicle theft, damagen.p.n.p.n.p.
Theft from vehiclesBurglary, vehicle theft, damagen.p.n.p.n.p.
Criminal damageBurglary, vehicle theft, damagen.p.n.p.6
Theft without violenceNot in the graden.p.n.p.n.p.
Robbery without a weaponNot in the grade000
Theft of vehicle partsNot in the grade000
FraudNot in the grade00n.p.
Drug useNot in the grade000
Drug dealingNot in the grade000

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).

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Criminal damage27.3
ViolenceBurglary, vehicle theft, damageNot in the grade

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

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.

What isn’t published

7 kinds of crime aren’t published for Linay

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 Ardennes communes whose count is hidden, which can be well above or below Linay’s real figure. 7 of Linay’s 8 graded kinds are hidden in at least one year.

Hidden for LinayYearsArdennes average
Family violence2023–20251.5 · 1.6 · 1.8
Other physical violence2023, 20251.5 · 1.3
Sexual violence2023–20251.1 · 1.2 · 1.3
Burglary2023–20251.3 · 1.8 · 1.3
Vehicle theft2023–20251.2 · 0.9 · 1.2
Theft from vehicles2023–20251.3 · 1.4 · 0.8
Criminal damage2023, 20241.7 · 1.7

The counts SSMSI keeps back for Linay, and the département average it publishes in their place.

Neighbors

Linay and the towns around it

ABCDNot graded
TownPeopleViolenceHomes, vehiclesSafety
Linay220———
Carignan2,6801014.8C+
Sedan16,66714.821.9D

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 Linay

Is Linay safe?

Linay has no Safety Grade: we grade towns of 1,000 people or more. What is published for 2025: 6 criminal damage. Violence counts are mostly hidden: each was five or fewer in at least one of the last three years.

What is the most common recorded offense in Linay?

Criminal damage: 6 in 2025.

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 October 30, 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.