Photo: Gachepi · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Saint-Vallier records more crime than 92% of compared French towns
The rate the grade counts dropped 27% from 2023 to 2025. Scored on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Saint-Vallier across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on D for safety: #32 of 36 in Drôme. The typical town its size sees 1.2 cases of drug use per 1,000 residents; Saint-Vallier sees 6, or 24 in 2025. Police counts work out at 10.0 violent crimes and 25.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
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 Saint-Vallier
Theft from vehicles fell sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 37 cases of theft from vehicles in Saint-Vallier in 2023 and 11 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
Counted where it happens
2,550 jobs are based in Saint-Vallier, for 1,400 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.
What’s behind Saint-Vallier’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 431 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 4,027, a few cases more or fewer would move it between D and D.
Hidden counts: for sexual violence and armed robbery, 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, 0.7% of the index here. What isn’t published ↓
Per resident, against the 4,295 compared French towns with a Safety Grade.
What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025
Well above the median of towns its size: drug use (6 per 1,000 against 1.2), vehicle theft (3.5 per 1,000 against 0.7) and theft from vehicles (2.7 per 1,000 against 1.2). Not published for 2025: armed robbery, robbery without a weapon 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.
Per 1,000 residents in 2025; the tick is the median of the graded French towns of 2,500 to 10,000.
Saint-Vallier, year by year
Violence · per 1,000 residents
Burglary, vehicle theft, damage · per 1,000 residents
| Kind | In the grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family violence | Violence | 23 | 16 | 22 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 25 | 7 | 11 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | n.p. | 6 | 8 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | 0 | n.p. | n.p. |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 9 | 13 | 7 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 10 | 12 | 14 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 37 | 32 | 11 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 67 | 48 | 53 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 31 | 39 | 35 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 9 | 12 | 9 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 20 | 26 | 23 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 12 | 20 | 24 |
| 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”.
Offenses recorded each year. n.p.: not published (small: five or fewer in at least one of the last three years).
Among 1,558 towns its size, Saint-Vallier ranks 1,493rd for the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neuilly-Crimolois Côte-d'Or | 3,588 | 2.2 | 4.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 49 | La Roche-de-Glun Drôme | 3,569 | 3.1 | 6.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 136 | Beaumont-lès-Valence Drôme | 4,337 | 2.9 | 8.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 140 | Malissard Drôme | 3,294 | 2.1 | 9.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 206 | Montmeyran Drôme | 2,960 | 4.1 | 7.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 1490 | Bruyères Vosges | 2,923 | 21 | 14.7 | D |
| 1491 | La Châtre Indre | 4,037 | 11.2 | 24.6 | D |
| 1492 | La Tremblade Charente-Maritime | 4,650 | 11.7 | 24.2 | D |
| 1493 | Saint-Vallier Drôme | 4,027 | 10 | 25.9 | D |
| 1494 | Mirecourt Vosges | 4,700 | 17.6 | 18.3 | D |
| 1495 | La Croix-Valmer Var | 3,855 | 10.3 | 26.1 | D |
| 1496 | Les Belleville Savoie | 3,498 | 18.8 | 17.7 | D |
| … | |||||
| 1558 | Colombier-Saugnieu Rhône | 2,874 | 35.4 | 56.6 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Saint-Vallier with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Saint-Vallier and up to four from Drôme.
Crime in Saint-Vallier per 1,000 residents
Each dot is one resident’s share: offenses are counted, not victims, and one person can be the victim of several.
And 26 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 14 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Saint-Vallier and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Vallier | 4,027 | 10 | 25.9 | D |
| Vernosc-lès-Annonay Ardèche | 2,725 | —1 | —1 | —1 |
| Anneyron | 4,169 | 2.6 | 11.1 | A |
| Davézieux Ardèche | 3,205 | 4.6 | 10.1 | A− |
| Saint-Rambert-d'Albon | 7,001 | 9.5 | 30.6 | D |
| Tain-l'Hermitage | 5,915 | 9.4 | 19.3 | C− |
| Roiffieux Ardèche | 2,743 | —1 | —1 | —1 |
1 Not graded: over 25% of the index would rest on département averages, where SSMSI doesn’t publish small counts.
3 of its 4 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Saint-Vallier.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average.
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 Saint-Vallier
Is Saint-Vallier safe?
It has more crime per resident than 92% of compared French towns: an average of 10 recorded violent incidents and 25.9 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, #32 of 36 in Drôme. With 2,550 jobs for 1,400 working residents, Saint-Vallier 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 Saint-Vallier?
The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 27% from 2023 to 2025: 42.9 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 31.5 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 Saint-Vallier?
Criminal damage: 53 in 2025. Then theft without violence (35), drug use (24) and fraud (23).
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.