Photo: Anonymous Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0Le Bouscat records theft from vehicles at 3.3 times the rate of a typical town its size
The graded rate rose 9% from 2023 to 2025. On violence it beats 77% of compared French towns; on burglary, vehicle theft and damage, only 7%. Across all the graded crimes, Le Bouscat lands on C− (#74 of 100 in Gironde): more crime per resident than 81% of compared French towns, on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded from 2023 to 2025. Each year brought 4.7 violent crimes and 25.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage for every 1,000 residents.
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 Le Bouscat
Ranks better on violence than on burglary, vehicle theft and damage
Le Bouscat recorded an average of 4.7 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, fewer than in 77% of compared French towns, and 25.4 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, fewer than in 7%. Safety Grade ↓
Among towns its size
Among the 316 French towns of 17,600 to 33,900 people with a Safety Grade, Le Bouscat is 212th 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.
The grade: C− for Le Bouscat
A firm grade. Built on 2,260 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 25,081, a few cases more or fewer would not change the grade: C−.
Hidden counts: for 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, 0.1% 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: theft from vehicles (8.5 per 1,000 against 2.6), robbery without a weapon (0.8 per 1,000 against 0.3) and burglary (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.9). Not published for 2025: armed robbery.
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 10,000 to 50,000.
Crime in Le Bouscat 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 25 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 15 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Le Bouscat, 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 | 54 | 51 | 60 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 37 | 41 | 36 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 21 | 26 | 22 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 124 | 144 | 110 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 64 | 69 | 46 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 169 | 287 | 213 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 194 | 255 | 237 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 174 | 207 | 220 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | 13 | 16 | 20 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 12 | 29 | 15 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 171 | 175 | 195 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 24 | 42 | 23 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | n.p. | 7 | 10 |
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).
Le Bouscat places 212th of 316 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beaupréau-en-Mauges Maine-et-Loire | 23,989 | 5.4 | 8 | A |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Gujan-Mestras Gironde | 22,153 | 6.6 | 11.6 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 29 | Saint-Médard-en-Jalles Gironde | 32,910 | 5.9 | 13.7 | B |
| … | |||||
| 171 | Gradignan Gironde | 26,952 | 8.1 | 19.8 | C |
| … | |||||
| 178 | Ambarès-et-Lagrave Gironde | 17,644 | 10.7 | 17.3 | C |
| … | |||||
| 209 | Osny Val-d'Oise | 17,954 | 8.6 | 21.3 | C− |
| 210 | Miramas Bouches-du-Rhône | 26,203 | 9.3 | 20.6 | C− |
| 211 | Remire-Montjoly French Guiana | 27,723 | 15.4 | 14.6 | C− |
| 212 | Le Bouscat Gironde | 25,081 | 4.7 | 25.4 | C− |
| 213 | Menton Alpes-Maritimes | 30,604 | 9.8 | 20.4 | C− |
| 214 | Villiers-le-Bel Val-d'Oise | 30,053 | 12.2 | 18.1 | C− |
| 215 | Voiron Isère | 21,847 | 11.1 | 19.2 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 316 | Marseille 2e Bouches-du-Rhône | 24,378 | 20.1 | 103.2 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Le Bouscat with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Le Bouscat and up to four from Gironde.
Le Bouscat and the towns around it
2 of its 6 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Le Bouscat.
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 Le Bouscat
Is Le Bouscat safe?
It has more crime per resident than 81% of compared French towns: an average of 4.7 recorded violent incidents and 25.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. It grades C− for safety, #74 of 100 in Gironde. Among the 316 French towns of 17,600 to 33,900 people, it is 212th from the lowest rate.
Is crime going up in Le Bouscat?
The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 9% from 2023 to 2025: 26.5 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 28.9 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.
What is the most common recorded offense in Le Bouscat?
Criminal damage: 237 in 2025. Then theft without violence (220), theft from vehicles (213) and fraud (195).
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 9, 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.