Photo: Enrevseluj · CC BY-SA 4.0Morne-à-l'Eau stands out for armed robbery: 18.7 times the rate of a typical town its size
Weighing it all, Morne-à-l'Eau earns C+ for safety (#7 of 26 in Guadeloupe), with more crime per resident than 62% of compared French towns, on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded over 2023 to 2025. Its place among the 463 compared French towns closest in size is 175th, the least crime first. The yearly rates were 12.2 violent crimes and 12.1 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 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 Morne-à-l'Eau
Family violence rose sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 60 cases of family violence in Morne-à-l'Eau in 2023 and 92 in 2025. The grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
More violence than burglary, vehicle theft and damage
Morne-à-l'Eau recorded an average of 12.2 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, fewer than in 14% of compared French towns, and 12.1 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, fewer than in 64%. Safety Grade ↓
Among towns its size
Among the 463 French towns of 11,400 to 21,900 people with a Safety Grade, Morne-à-l'Eau is 175th 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.
Morne-à-l'Eau: C+ for safety, and why
A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,181 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 16,228, a few cases more or fewer would move it between C and C+.
Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Morne-à-l'Eau.
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 (1 per 1,000 against 0.1), drug use (9.3 per 1,000 against 4) and robbery without a weapon (0.6 per 1,000 against 0.3). Not published for 2025: 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 10,000 to 50,000.
Towns its size: Morne-à-l'Eau comes 175th of 463
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Hague Manche | 11,484 | 3.8 | 4.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 172 | Triel-sur-Seine Yvelines | 12,206 | 7 | 17 | C+ |
| 173 | Brie-Comte-Robert Seine-et-Marne | 19,003 | 7.2 | 16.8 | C+ |
| 174 | Les Ponts-de-Cé Maine-et-Loire | 13,149 | 6.5 | 17.7 | C+ |
| 175 | Morne-à-l'Eau Guadeloupe | 16,228 | 12.2 | 12.1 | C+ |
| 176 | La Chapelle-Saint-Luc Aube | 12,648 | 11.2 | 13.1 | C+ |
| 177 | Belleville-en-Beaujolais Rhône | 14,016 | 10 | 14.4 | C+ |
| 178 | Moissy-Cramayel Seine-et-Marne | 18,511 | 8.5 | 16 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 197 | Capesterre-Belle-Eau Guadeloupe | 17,684 | 12.5 | 12.8 | C |
| … | |||||
| 345 | Lamentin Guadeloupe | 18,628 | 13.1 | 17.8 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 405 | Sainte-Rose Guadeloupe | 17,700 | 13 | 22.1 | D |
| … | |||||
| 434 | Saint-François Guadeloupe | 13,942 | 15.9 | 22.3 | D |
| … | |||||
| 463 | Paris 1er Paris | 15,114 | 45.5 | 67.1 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Morne-à-l'Eau with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Morne-à-l'Eau and up to four from Guadeloupe.
Crime in Morne-à-l'Eau 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 12 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 8 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
The graded rate, 2023 to 2025: about level
Violence · per 1,000 residents
Burglary, vehicle theft, damage · per 1,000 residents
| Kind | In the grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family violence | Violence | 60 | 84 | 92 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 75 | 66 | 97 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 28 | 19 | 23 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 49 | 36 | 46 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 28 | 24 | 22 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 53 | 60 | 35 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 91 | 73 | 72 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 91 | 63 | 79 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | 7 | 14 | 10 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 7 | 20 | 16 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 37 | 46 | 67 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 93 | 80 | 151 |
| 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).
Morne-à-l'Eau and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morne-à-l'Eau | 16,228 | 12.2 | 12.1 | C+ |
| Petit-Canal | 8,212 | 10 | 14.5 | C+ |
| Les Abymes | 51,055 | 19 | 24 | D− |
| Le Moule | 23,014 | 12.9 | 13.5 | C |
| Port-Louis | 5,607 | 20.7 | 21 | D− |
| Pointe-à-Pitre | 15,040 | 35.7 | 49.3 | D− |
| Sainte-Anne | 23,973 | 12.8 | 15.3 | C |
Morne-à-l'Eau’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.
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 Morne-à-l'Eau
Is Morne-à-l'Eau safe?
It has more crime per resident than 62% of compared French towns: an average of 12.2 recorded violent incidents and 12.1 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, #7 of 26 in Guadeloupe. Among the 463 French towns of 11,400 to 21,900 people, it is 175th from the lowest rate.
Is crime going up in Morne-à-l'Eau?
The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025: 24.6 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 24.8 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 Morne-à-l'Eau?
Drug use: 151 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then other physical violence (97), family violence (92) and theft without violence (79).
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.