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Safety in Poulx · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Per resident, Poulx records less crime than 96% of compared French towns

Police counts work out at 3.3 violent crimes and 7.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 residents annually. Counting from the least crime, it is 119th of the 1,628 compared French towns nearest it in size. Measured on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Poulx between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of A+: #1 of 60 in Gard.

AViolence ABurglary, vehicle theft, damage #1of 60 in Gard 119thof 1,628 towns its size

Violence

3.3

recorded per 1,000 residents a year · in the grade

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

7.7

burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles, criminal damage · in the grade

Theft and fraud

7.4

theft without violence, fraud, per 1,000 residents a year · Not in the grade

Drug use

–

recorded offenses per 1,000 residents a year · Not in the grade

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Poulx

119thof 1,628 towns its size, lowest rate first ×3.2criminal damage, 2023 to 2025

Among towns its size

Among the 1,628 French towns of 3,000 to 5,900 people with a Safety Grade, Poulx is 119th from the lowest recorded rate per resident. Towns its size ↓

Criminal damage rose sharply

Police and gendarmerie recorded 10 cases of criminal damage in Poulx in 2023 and 32 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓

Written from the SSMSI and INSEE data on this page. Figures are offenses police and gendarmerie recorded, not convictions.

Safety Grade

The A+ for Poulx, and how it is built

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (3.3 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 90% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (7.7 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 93% of compared French towns

AA⁺

A less sure grade than most. Built on 121 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 4,348, a few cases more or fewer would move it between A and A+. 15.8% of the index uses the département’s average for crimes not published here, over 10%.

Hidden counts: for other physical violence, sexual violence, 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, 15.8% of the index here. What isn’t published ↓

Per resident, against the 4,295 compared French towns with a Safety Grade.

Towns its size

Towns its size: Poulx comes 119th of 1,628

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Mouguerre Pyrénées-Atlantiques	5,428	0.8	5.5	A⁺
…
116	Nans-les-Pins Var	5,215	3.6	7.4	A⁺
117	Celles-sur-Belle Deux-Sèvres	3,829	4.7	6.3	A⁺
118	Boujan-sur-Libron Hérault	3,619	4.3	6.8	A⁺
119	Poulx Gard	4,348	3.3	7.7	A⁺
120	Pontpoint Oise	3,275	2.7	8.3	A⁺
121	Le Vaudreuil Eure	3,624	4.3	6.7	A⁺
122	Colayrac-Saint-Cirq Lot-et-Garonne	3,095	2.5	8.5	A⁺
…
136	Rousson Gard	4,456	4.8	6.5	A⁺
…
201	Pujaut Gard	3,982	2.9	9.1	A
…
203	Saint-Privat-des-Vieux Gard	5,703	2.6	9.4	A
…
252	Jonquières-Saint-Vincent Gard	3,875	4.6	7.8	A
…
1628	Saint-Tropez Var	3,582	24.8	53.3	D⁻

Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Poulx with every compared French town, not just towns its size.

Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Poulx and up to four from Gard.

What isn’t published

4 kinds of crime aren’t published for Poulx

Share of the index resting on Gard averages15.8% · 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 Gard communes whose count is hidden. That average stands in for Poulx’s hidden cells, never a zero; here it is 15.8% of the index, over 10%, so the grade is less sure than most.

Hidden for Poulx	Years	Gard average
Other physical violence	2023–2025	2.1 · 2.3 · 1.8
Sexual violence	2023–2025	2 · 1.8 · 1.9
Vehicle theft	2023–2025	1.9 · 1.9 · 1.7
Theft from vehicles	2023–2025	1.7 · 1.8 · 1.8

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

For every 1,000 residents

Crime in Poulx per 1,000 residents

ViolenceBurglary, vehicle theft, damageTheft and fraud (not in the grade)

recorded violent incidents

burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage

thefts without violence and frauds

of the three together

Each dot is one resident’s share: offenses are counted, not victims, and one person can be the victim of several.

And 8 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 7 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Fraud8

Criminal damage7.4

Family violence3.4

Burglary1.8

ViolenceBurglary, vehicle theft, damageNot in the gradeMedian of towns its size

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

Year by year

The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 53% per resident from 2023 to 2025

Violence · per 1,000 residents

20233.2

20242.3

20254.3

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage · per 1,000 residents

20236.1

20247.1

202510

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	10	6	15
Other physical violence	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Sexual violence	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Armed robbery	Violence	0	0	0
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	13	15	8
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	10	12	32
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	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Fraud	Not in the grade	32	30	35
Drug use	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
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).

Neighbors

Poulx and the towns around it

MarguerittesRodilhanNîmesRedessanManduelUzèsPoulx

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Poulx	4,348	3.3	7.7	A⁺
Marguerittes	8,346	10.5	23.9	D
Rodilhan	2,799	4.7	11.2	A⁻
Nîmes	151,839	11.3	20.9	D
Redessan	4,211	6.5	10.2	B⁺
Manduel	7,044	9.7	12	B⁻
Uzès	8,519	9.2	21.3	C⁻

Poulx’s recorded rate in the graded categories is lower than each of its 6 graded neighbors’.

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.

How the Safety Grade works in France →

Questions about safety in Poulx

Is Poulx safe?

It has less crime per resident than 96% of compared French towns: an average of 3.3 recorded violent incidents and 7.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. It grades A+ for safety, #1 of 60 in Gard. Among the 1,628 French towns of 3,000 to 5,900 people, it is 119th from the lowest rate.

Is crime going up in Poulx?

The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 53% from 2023 to 2025: 9.4 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 14.3 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 Poulx?

Fraud: 35 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then criminal damage (32), family violence (15) and burglary (8).

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.