Photo: Florence Mirval · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Les Abymes runs higher than in 97% of compared French towns
With 143 cases in 2025, armed robbery reaches 2.8 per 1,000 residents in Les Abymes, well above the typical 0.1. The rate the grade counts climbed 25% from 2023 to 2025. Counting offenses police and gendarmerie recorded locally from 2023 to 2025, it grades D− for safety: #24 of 26 in Guadeloupe. Per 1,000 residents a year, 19 violent crimes and 24 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage were recorded.
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 Les Abymes
Other physical violence rose sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 302 cases of other physical violence in Les Abymes in 2023 and 490 in 2025. The grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
Among towns its size
Among the 175 French towns of 35,700 to 68,900 people with a Safety Grade, Les Abymes is 155th 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.
Les Abymes: D− for safety, and why
A firm grade. Built on 6,591 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 51,055, a few cases more or fewer would move it between D− and D−.
Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Les Abymes.
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: armed robbery (2.8 per 1,000 against 0.1), other physical violence (9.6 per 1,000 against 4.5) and vehicle theft (3.7 per 1,000 against 2.1).
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 50,000 or more.
Les Abymes, 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 | 306 | 337 | 383 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 302 | 398 | 490 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 100 | 113 | 119 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | 96 | 123 | 143 |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 195 | 201 | 217 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 147 | 166 | 191 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 389 | 380 | 309 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 425 | 470 | 591 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 408 | 437 | 502 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | 83 | 90 | 91 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 66 | 82 | 91 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 247 | 254 | 290 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 180 | 232 | 235 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | 77 | 76 | 59 |
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).
155th of 175: Les Abymes among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Joseph Réunion | 39,207 | 9.4 | 4.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 152 | Montélimar Drôme | 40,595 | 13.2 | 29.3 | D− |
| 153 | Paris 9e Paris | 57,271 | 11.5 | 31.2 | D− |
| 154 | Blois Loir-et-Cher | 47,219 | 16.3 | 26.6 | D− |
| 155 | Les Abymes Guadeloupe | 51,055 | 19 | 24 | D− |
| 156 | Noisy-le-Sec Seine-Saint-Denis | 45,510 | 13.3 | 29.8 | D− |
| 157 | Narbonne Aude | 57,587 | 13.2 | 31.2 | D− |
| 158 | Marseille 5e Bouches-du-Rhône | 45,702 | 9.9 | 34.6 | D− |
| … | |||||
| 175 | Marseille 1er Bouches-du-Rhône | 37,599 | 27.4 | 70.7 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Les Abymes with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Les Abymes and up to four from Guadeloupe.
Crime in Les Abymes 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 24 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 14 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Les Abymes and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Abymes | 51,055 | 19 | 24 | D− |
| Pointe-à-Pitre | 15,040 | 35.7 | 49.3 | D− |
| Le Gosier | 27,757 | 15.1 | 19.4 | D |
| Morne-à-l'Eau | 16,228 | 12.2 | 12.1 | C+ |
| Baie-Mahault | 30,924 | 15.8 | 16.6 | D |
| Petit-Canal | 8,212 | 10 | 14.5 | C+ |
| Petit-Bourg | 24,665 | 11.9 | 13.4 | C |
5 of its 6 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Les Abymes.
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 Les Abymes
Is Les Abymes safe?
It has more crime per resident than 97% of compared French towns: an average of 19 recorded violent incidents and 24 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, #24 of 26 in Guadeloupe. Among the 175 French towns of 35,700 to 68,900 people, it is 155th from the lowest rate. With 24,600 jobs for 16,850 working residents, Les Abymes 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 Les Abymes?
The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 25% from 2023 to 2025: 38.4 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 47.9 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.
What is the most common recorded offense in Les Abymes?
Criminal damage: 591 in 2025. Then theft without violence (502), other physical violence (490) and family violence (383).
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.