Photo: Olybrius · CC BY-SA 3.0Grigny has more crime per resident than 92% of compared French towns
Counting offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Grigny from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety: #89 of 91 in Essonne.
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 Grigny
Armed robbery fell sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 28 cases of armed robbery in Grigny in 2023 and 6 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
Among towns its size
Among the 290 French towns of 18,800 to 36,200 people with a Safety Grade, Grigny is 254th from the lowest recorded rate per resident. Towns its size ↓
Written from the SSMSI and INSEE data on this page. Figures are offenses police and gendarmerie recorded, not convictions.
Grigny grades D for safety
Per resident, against the 4,295 compared French towns with a Safety Grade.
A firm grade. Built on 2,923 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 26,842, a few cases more or fewer would move it between D and D.
Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Grigny.
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 10,000 to 50,000.
Well above the median of towns its size: drug dealing (9.1 per 1,000 against 0.3), robbery without a weapon (3.1 per 1,000 against 0.3) and drug use (15 per 1,000 against 4).
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.
The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 23% per resident 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 | 175 | 160 | 129 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 131 | 117 | 110 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 53 | 48 | 53 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | 28 | 15 | 6 |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 18 | 32 | 39 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 90 | 116 | 93 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 235 | 176 | 127 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 353 | 347 | 272 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 213 | 275 | 264 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | 116 | 94 | 84 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 59 | 69 | 30 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 172 | 138 | 129 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 325 | 351 | 403 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | 88 | 134 | 244 |
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”.
Grigny is 254th of 290 French towns of 18,800 to 36,200 people
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Grigny and up to four from Essonne.
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beaupréau-en-Mauges Maine-et-Loire | 23,989 | 5.4 | 8 | A |
| … | |||||
| 16 | Gif-sur-Yvette Essonne | 22,544 | 4.1 | 13.6 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 29 | Yerres Essonne | 27,906 | 5.8 | 14 | B |
| … | |||||
| 62 | Brunoy Essonne | 25,643 | 6.2 | 15.6 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 88 | Draveil Essonne | 30,098 | 7.7 | 16.2 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 251 | Sens Yonne | 27,106 | 13.8 | 22.3 | D |
| 252 | Roanne Loire | 35,409 | 14.2 | 21.9 | D |
| 253 | Saint-Fons Rhône | 19,285 | 12 | 24.1 | D |
| 254 | Grigny Essonne | 26,842 | 12.7 | 23.6 | D |
| 255 | Les Pavillons-sous-Bois Seine-Saint-Denis | 25,804 | 9.9 | 26.7 | D |
| 256 | Auxerre Yonne | 35,097 | 13.3 | 23.9 | D |
| 257 | Maubeuge Nord | 28,767 | 18 | 19.7 | D |
| … | |||||
| 290 | Marseille 2e Bouches-du-Rhône | 24,378 | 20.1 | 103.2 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Grigny with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
About 13 recorded violent incidents a year for every 1,000 residents
And 24 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 15 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.
Grigny 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grigny | 26,842 | 12.7 | 23.6 | D |
| Ris-Orangis | 31,189 | 9.8 | 19 | C− |
| Viry-Châtillon | 30,838 | 10.2 | 22.3 | D |
| Fleury-Mérogis | 13,721 | 17.3 | 13.2 | C− |
| Morsang-sur-Orge | 21,667 | 7.5 | 20.4 | C |
| Draveil | 30,098 | 7.7 | 16.2 | C+ |
| Villemoisson-sur-Orge | 7,332 | 4.4 | 18.8 | C+ |
Grigny’s recorded rate in the graded categories is higher than each of its 6 graded neighbors’.
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 Grigny
Is Grigny safe?
It has more crime per resident than 92% of compared French towns: an average of 12.7 recorded violent incidents and 23.6 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, #89 of 91 in Essonne. Among the 290 French towns of 18,800 to 36,200 people, it is 254th from the lowest rate.
Is crime going up in Grigny?
The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 23% from 2023 to 2025: 40.3 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 30.9 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.
What is the most common recorded offense in Grigny?
Drug use: 403 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then criminal damage (272), theft without violence (264) and drug dealing (244).
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.