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Safety in Mulhouse · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Crime per resident in Mulhouse runs higher than in 96% of compared French towns

Other physical violence runs at 8.1 per 1,000 residents in Mulhouse, against 4.5 in a typical town its size: police and gendarmerie recorded 846 in 2025. The Safety Grade comes out at D−, drawn from offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Mulhouse through 2023 to 2025. Its police logs show 18.5 violent crimes and 22.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 residents a year.

D⁻Violence DBurglary, vehicle theft, damage 45thof 56 towns its size

Violence

18.5

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

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

22.4

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

Theft and fraud

20.2

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

Drug use

7.3

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 Mulhouse

1.6jobs per working resident: Mulhouse draws people from neighboring communes 45thof 56 towns its size, lowest rate first

Counted where it happens

55,700 jobs are based in Mulhouse, for 35,500 working residents. Offenses are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents, so a town people come into for work and shops records more per resident than one they leave. How to read it ↓

Among towns its size

Among the 56 French towns of 73,500 to 141,700 people with a Safety Grade, Mulhouse is 45th 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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Mulhouse’s grade

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (18.5 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 3% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (22.4 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 12% of compared French towns

D⁻D

A fairly firm grade. Built on 12,881 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 104,978, a few cases more or fewer would move it between D− and D.

Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Mulhouse.

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

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Theft without violence14.7

Criminal damage11.8

Other physical violence8.1

Drug use7.8

Theft from vehicles7.6

Family violence7.3

Fraud5.6

Burglary3.3

Sexual violence3

Robbery without a weapon1.3

Drug dealing1.1

Vehicle theft1

Theft of vehicle parts0.8

Armed robbery0.2

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

Well above the median of towns its size: other physical violence (8.1 per 1,000 against 4.5), family violence (7.3 per 1,000 against 4.1) and theft from vehicles (7.6 per 1,000 against 4.3).

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.

Towns its size

Mulhouse is 45th of 56 French towns of 73,500 to 141,700 people

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Le Tampon Réunion	82,579	10.5	6.9	B⁺
…
42	Marseille 13e Bouches-du-Rhône	95,112	9.1	29.8	D
43	Poitiers Vienne	89,916	11.6	27.5	D
44	Amiens Somme	136,449	14.8	25.6	D
45	Mulhouse Haut-Rhin	104,978	18.5	22.4	D⁻
46	Perpignan Pyrénées-Orientales	121,616	14.6	30	D⁻
47	Aubervilliers Seine-Saint-Denis	88,365	13	32.1	D⁻
48	Cannes Alpes-Maritimes	74,350	14.3	31.1	D⁻
…
56	Lyon 7e Rhône	88,326	10.4	56.4	D⁻

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

Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Mulhouse and up to four from Haut-Rhin.

For every 1,000 residents

Crime in Mulhouse 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 22 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 20 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

Year by year

From 2023 to 2025, the graded categories held about level

Violence · per 1,000 residents

202318.3

202418.6

202518.5

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

202323.4

202420.2

202523.7

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	777	758	771
Other physical violence	Violence	833	834	846
Sexual violence	Violence	299	350	312
Armed robbery	Violence	16	11	16
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	297	264	345
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	130	108	106
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	708	607	797
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	1,322	1,138	1,236
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	1,625	1,613	1,542
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	170	120	134
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	48	47	84
Fraud	Not in the grade	488	493	592
Drug use	Not in the grade	716	774	814
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	150	161	118

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

Mulhouse and the towns around it

PfastattRiedisheimIllzachBrunstatt-DidenheimLutterbachKingersheimMulhouse

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Mulhouse	104,978	18.5	22.4	D⁻
Pfastatt	10,314	5.9	10.6	A⁻
Riedisheim	12,200	6.6	11	B⁺
Illzach	14,923	10.5	14.6	C
Brunstatt-Didenheim	8,259	6.9	12.1	B
Lutterbach	6,851	17.6	10.9	C⁻
Kingersheim	13,354	7.3	11.6	B

Mulhouse’s recorded rate in the graded categories is higher 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 Mulhouse

Is Mulhouse safe?

It has more crime per resident than 96% of compared French towns: an average of 18.5 recorded violent incidents and 22.4 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. Among the 56 French towns of 73,500 to 141,700 people, it is 45th from the lowest rate. With 55,700 jobs for 35,500 working residents, Mulhouse 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 Mulhouse?

The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025: 41.7 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 42.2 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.

What is the most common recorded offense in Mulhouse?

Theft without violence: 1,542 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then criminal damage (1,236), other physical violence (846) and drug use (814).

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 8, 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.