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Safety in Chalabre · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Chalabre has no Safety Grade: too many of its crime counts aren’t published

The Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI) doesn’t publish a commune’s count of a kind of crime when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years). In Chalabre, the hidden counts would make up 54.2% of the Safety index if the Aude average stood in for them, over the 25% we allow, so Chalabre has no Safety Grade. The counts that are published are below.

Graded kinds published
2 / 8
in 2025; the rest are hidden
Criminal damage
7.1
per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
Borrowed
54.2%
of the index would rest on Aude averages · limit 25%

Published counts only: no figure on this page includes a borrowed average except the borrowed share itself.

What isn’t published

Why Chalabre has no Safety Grade

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

Share of the index resting on Aude averages54.2% · 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 Aude communes whose count is hidden, which can be well above or below Chalabre’s real figure. 6 of Chalabre’s 8 graded kinds are hidden in at least one year. With those averages in place, 54.2% of the index would be borrowed rather than counted, so Chalabre gets no Safety Grade: a grade is never mostly borrowed.

Hidden for ChalabreYearsAude average
Family violence2023–20251.9 · 2 · 2
Other physical violence2023–20251.3 · 1.3 · 1.6
Sexual violence2023–20251.1 · 1.2 · 1.2
Burglary2023–20251.9 · 1.9 · 2
Vehicle theft2023–20251.2 · 1.3 · 1.6
Theft from vehicles2023–20251.4 · 1.3 · 1.2
Year by year

What was recorded in Chalabre, year by year

Offenses recorded each year. n.p.: not published (small: five or fewer in at least one of the last three years).

KindIn the grade202320242025
Family violenceViolencen.p.n.p.n.p.
Other physical violenceViolencen.p.n.p.n.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, damage995
Theft without violenceNot in the graden.p.n.p.n.p.
Robbery without a weaponNot in the grade000
Theft of vehicle partsNot in the graden.p.n.p.n.p.
FraudNot in the graden.p.n.p.8
Drug useNot in the graden.p.n.p.n.p.
Drug dealingNot in the graden.p.00

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”.

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Per 1,000 residents in 2025; the tick is the median of the graded French towns of 1,000 to 2,500.

Fraud7.4
Criminal damage4.6
ViolenceBurglary, vehicle theft, damageNot in the gradeMedian of towns its size

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

Neighbors

Chalabre and the towns around it

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

ABCDNot graded
TownPeopleViolenceHomes, vehiclesSafety
Chalabre1,084—1—1—1
Lavelanet Ariège5,98717.215.9D
Mirepoix Ariège3,1724.114.5B
Quillan2,9788.712.7B−
Limoux10,53211.618.6C−

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

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 Chalabre

Is Chalabre safe?

Chalabre has no Safety Grade, because too many of its counts aren’t published. What is published for 2025: 8 fraud and 5 criminal damage. Violence counts are mostly hidden: each was five or fewer in at least one of the last three years.

Why does Chalabre have no Safety Grade?

SSMSI doesn’t publish a count when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years) and publishes a Aude average in its place. For Chalabre, those averages would make 54.2% of the Safety index, over our 25% limit, so we don’t grade it: the letter would describe the département more than the town.

What is the most common recorded offense in Chalabre?

Fraud: 8 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then criminal damage (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.