–Not graded

Safety in Bages · SSMSI, 2023–2025

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

The published counts for 2025 are led by theft from vehicles, with 22. We grade Safety from 1,000 residents, and Bages has fewer: at that size a handful of incidents moves the rate a long way. Every count published for Bages is set out below.

Graded kinds published

2 / 8

in 2025; the rest are hidden

Criminal damage

13.9

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 Bages, year by year

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Other physical violence	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
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	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	20	28	22
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	n.p.	n.p.	10
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	9	14	13
Fraud	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Drug use	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	6	8	5

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

Theft from vehicles30.6

Theft of vehicle parts18.1

Criminal damage13.9

Drug dealing6.9

ViolenceBurglary, vehicle theft, damageNot in the grade

Not published for 2025: family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery, burglary, vehicle theft, theft without violence, robbery without a weapon, fraud and drug use.

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 Bages

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

Hidden for Bages	Years	Aude average
Family violence	2023–2025	1.9 · 2 · 2
Other physical violence	2023–2025	1.3 · 1.3 · 1.6
Sexual violence	2023–2025	1.1 · 1.2 · 1.2
Armed robbery	2023–2025	0.8 · 1.2 · 0.9
Burglary	2023–2025	1.9 · 1.9 · 2
Vehicle theft	2023–2025	1.2 · 1.3 · 1.6
Criminal damage	2023, 2024	2.2 · 2.1

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

Neighbors

Bages and the towns around it

NarbonneGruissanSigeanVinassanCoursanCuxac-d'AudeBages

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Bages	720	—	—	—
Narbonne	57,587	13.2	31.2	D⁻
Gruissan	5,032	13.4	38.5	D⁻
Sigean	5,657	6.7	15.9	C⁺
Vinassan	2,662	3.3	19.9	C⁺
Coursan	5,737	8.8	20.8	C⁻
Cuxac-d'Aude	4,079	9.2	17.9	C

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.

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Questions about safety in Bages

Is Bages safe?

Bages has no Safety Grade: we grade towns of 1,000 people or more. What is published for 2025: 22 theft from vehicles, 13 theft of vehicle parts, 10 criminal damage and 5 drug dealing. 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 Bages?

Theft from vehicles: 22 in 2025. Then theft of vehicle parts (13), criminal damage (10) and drug dealing (5).

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.