Photo: Jack ma · CC BY-SA 3.0Ruffec records more crime per resident than 98% of compared French towns
Counting offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Ruffec from 2023 to 2025, it grades D− for safety.
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 Ruffec
Family violence rose sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 27 cases of family violence in Ruffec in 2023 and 47 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
Counted where it happens
3,450 jobs are based in Ruffec, for 1,100 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 ↓
Written from the SSMSI and INSEE data on this page. Figures are offenses police and gendarmerie recorded, not convictions.
Ruffec grades D− for safety
Per resident, against the 4,295 compared French towns with a Safety Grade.
A firm grade. Built on 504 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 3,449, a few cases more or fewer would move it between D− and D−.
Hidden counts: for 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, 0.6% of the index here. What isn’t published ↓
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 2,500 to 10,000.
Well above the median of towns its size: drug use (6.1 per 1,000 against 1.2), sexual violence (4.3 per 1,000 against 1) and other physical violence (7.8 per 1,000 against 1.9). None recorded in 2025: armed robbery. Not published for 2025: robbery without a weapon, theft of vehicle parts 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.
Ruffec is 1,487th of 1,503 French towns of 2,400 to 4,700 people
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Ruffec and up to four from Charente.
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neuilly-Crimolois Côte-d'Or | 3,588 | 2.2 | 4.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Brie Charente | 4,125 | 1.2 | 5.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Val-de-Cognac Charente | 3,471 | 3.5 | 4.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 59 | Fléac Charente | 3,861 | 1.3 | 9.1 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 85 | Magnac-sur-Touvre Charente | 3,255 | 3.9 | 6.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 1484 | Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise Pas-de-Calais | 4,677 | 28.1 | 20.1 | D− |
| 1485 | La Fère Aisne | 2,796 | 20.4 | 28.1 | D− |
| 1486 | Gassin Var | 2,687 | 13.6 | 34.9 | D− |
| 1487 | Ruffec Charente | 3,449 | 24.3 | 24.8 | D− |
| 1488 | Hesdin-la-Forêt Pas-de-Calais | 4,480 | 26 | 23.5 | D− |
| 1489 | Avesnes-sur-Helpe Nord | 4,012 | 30.2 | 20.5 | D− |
| 1490 | La Réole Gironde | 4,487 | 21.2 | 30.7 | D− |
| … | |||||
| 1503 | Roissy-en-France Val-d'Oise | 2,674 | 120.7 | 203.7 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Ruffec with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
About 24 recorded violent incidents a year for every 1,000 residents
And 25 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 19 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Each dot is one resident’s share: offenses are counted, not victims, and one person can be the victim of several.
The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025
Offenses recorded each year. n.p.: not published (small: five or fewer in at least one of the last three years).
Violence · per 1,000 residents
Burglary, vehicle theft, damage · per 1,000 residents
| Kind | In the grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family violence | Violence | 27 | 26 | 47 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 45 | 35 | 27 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 21 | 8 | 15 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 19 | 23 | 14 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | n.p. | 6 | 6 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | n.p. | n.p. | 8 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 61 | 60 | 56 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 42 | 35 | 41 |
| 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 | 20 | 29 | 25 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 11 | 24 | 21 |
| 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”.
Ruffec and the towns around it
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average.
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruffec | 3,449 | 24.3 | 24.8 | D− |
| Civray Vienne | 2,522 | 10.5 | 7.8 | B+ |
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 Ruffec
Is Ruffec safe?
It has more crime per resident than 98% of compared French towns: an average of 24.3 recorded violent incidents and 24.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. It grades D− for safety. With 3,450 jobs for 1,100 working residents, Ruffec 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 Ruffec?
The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025: 50.8 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 50.2 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 Ruffec?
Criminal damage: 56 in 2025. Then family violence (47), theft without violence (41) and other physical violence (27).
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.