Photo: Polo973 · CC BY-SA 3.0Apatou records less crime per resident than almost every compared French town
The graded rate rose 19% from 2023 to 2025. Violence and property crime split as 5.9 violent crimes and 1.8 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 residents a year. Graded on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Apatou from 2023 to 2025, it scores A+ for safety: #1 of 13 in French Guiana. Starting from the least crime, it comes 2nd of the 784 compared French towns nearest in size.
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 Apatou
Among towns its size
Among the 784 French towns of 7,200 to 13,900 people with a Safety Grade, Apatou is 2nd from the lowest recorded rate per resident. Towns its size ↓
Other physical violence rose sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 12 cases of other physical violence in Apatou in 2023 and 34 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
More violence than burglary, vehicle theft and damage
Apatou recorded an average of 5.9 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, fewer than in 62% of compared French towns, and 1.8 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, fewer than in 100%. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the SSMSI and INSEE data on this page. Figures are offenses police and gendarmerie recorded, not convictions.
Inside Apatou’s A+ for safety
A firm grade. Built on 213 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 10,306, a few cases more or fewer would move it between A+ and A+.
Hidden counts: for armed robbery, burglary, 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, 9.9% of the index here. What isn’t published ↓
Per resident, against the 4,295 compared French towns with a Safety Grade.
2nd of 784: Apatou among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand-Santi French Guiana | 9,668 | 4.9 | 1.6 | A+ |
| 2 | Apatou French Guiana | 10,306 | 5.9 | 1.8 | A+ |
| 3 | La Hague Manche | 11,484 | 3.8 | 4.4 | A+ |
| 4 | La Gaude Alpes-Maritimes | 7,265 | 2.9 | 6.5 | A+ |
| 5 | Saint-Denis-en-Val Loiret | 7,766 | 3.7 | 6.1 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Maripasoula French Guiana | 9,579 | 8.4 | 3.6 | A |
| … | |||||
| 115 | Mana French Guiana | 10,957 | 11.7 | 5.2 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 784 | Argelès-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 10,616 | 21.1 | 40.6 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Apatou with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Apatou and up to four from French Guiana.
Apatou, 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 | 25 | 14 | 17 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 12 | 38 | 34 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 11 | 16 | 11 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | 0 | n.p. | n.p. |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| 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 | 13 | 13 | 9 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 8 | 11 | 8 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | n.p. | 0 | 0 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | n.p. | 0 | n.p. |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| 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).
What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025
None recorded in 2025: robbery without a weapon. Not published for 2025: armed robbery, burglary, vehicle theft, theft from vehicles, theft of vehicle parts, fraud, 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 10,000 to 50,000.
About 6 in 1,000: recorded violent incidents a year
Each dot is one resident’s share: offenses are counted, not victims, and one person can be the victim of several.
And 2 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 1 thefts without violence and frauds: 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 Apatou
Is Apatou safe?
It has less crime per resident than 100% of compared French towns: an average of 5.9 recorded violent incidents and 1.8 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 13 in French Guiana. Among the 784 French towns of 7,200 to 13,900 people, it is 2nd from the lowest rate.
Is crime going up in Apatou?
The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 19% from 2023 to 2025: 6.4 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 7.7 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 Apatou?
Other physical violence: 34 in 2025. Then family violence (17), sexual violence (11) and criminal damage (9).
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.