Photo: Lal.sacienne · CC BY-SA 4.0On violent crime, Saint-Dizier has a higher rate per resident than 93% of compared French towns
Its place among the 340 compared French towns closest in size is 252nd, the least crime first. Violence and property crime split as 14.8 violent crimes and 16.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 residents a year. All told, Saint-Dizier grades C− for safety (#4 of 6 in Haute-Marne): more crime per resident than 84% of compared French towns, on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded from 2023 to 2025. The graded rate fell 11% from 2023 to 2025.
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 Saint-Dizier
Vehicle theft fell sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 32 cases of vehicle theft in Saint-Dizier in 2023 and 16 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
Ranks worse on violence than on burglary, vehicle theft and damage
Saint-Dizier recorded an average of 14.8 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, fewer than in 7% of compared French towns, and 16.6 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, fewer than in 33%. Safety Grade ↓
Counted where it happens
15,350 jobs are based in Saint-Dizier, for 8,000 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 340 French towns of 16,000 to 30,900 people with a Safety Grade, Saint-Dizier is 252nd 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.
Inside Saint-Dizier’s C− for safety
A fairly firm grade. Built on 2,151 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 22,858, a few cases more or fewer would move it between D and 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: other physical violence (7 per 1,000 against 3.3), drug dealing (0.5 per 1,000 against 0.3) and family violence (6.6 per 1,000 against 3.9). Not published for 2025: armed robbery and robbery without a weapon.
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.
252nd of 340: Saint-Dizier among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beaupréau-en-Mauges Maine-et-Loire | 23,989 | 5.4 | 8 | A |
| … | |||||
| 227 | Chaumont Haute-Marne | 20,827 | 11.7 | 18 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 249 | Mandelieu-la-Napoule Alpes-Maritimes | 21,640 | 10.3 | 20.9 | C− |
| 250 | Les Pennes-Mirabeau Bouches-du-Rhône | 22,537 | 5.3 | 26 | C− |
| 251 | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Vosges | 19,251 | 12 | 19.3 | C− |
| 252 | Saint-Dizier Haute-Marne | 22,858 | 14.8 | 16.6 | C− |
| 253 | Soissons Aisne | 28,046 | 13.4 | 18.1 | C− |
| 254 | Avion Pas-de-Calais | 17,435 | 11.9 | 19.7 | C− |
| 255 | Le Pré-Saint-Gervais Seine-Saint-Denis | 16,993 | 9.4 | 22.4 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 340 | Marseille 2e Bouches-du-Rhône | 24,378 | 20.1 | 103.2 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Saint-Dizier with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Saint-Dizier and up to four from Haute-Marne.
Saint-Dizier, 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 | 154 | 110 | 152 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 152 | 114 | 160 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 59 | 57 | 52 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 58 | 52 | 48 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 32 | 29 | 16 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 73 | 63 | 58 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 280 | 197 | 235 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 149 | 155 | 144 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | 12 | 16 | n.p. |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 28 | 16 | 10 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 102 | 102 | 119 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 134 | 113 | 142 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | 18 | 39 | 12 |
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).
Crime in Saint-Dizier 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 17 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 11 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Saint-Dizier and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Dizier | 22,858 | 14.8 | 16.6 | C− |
| Ancerville Meuse | 2,569 | —1 | —1 | —1 |
| Wassy | 2,771 | 19.6 | 16.1 | D |
| Bar-le-Duc Meuse | 14,607 | 12.6 | 16.2 | C− |
| Joinville | 2,915 | 14.6 | 16.1 | C− |
| Ligny-en-Barrois Meuse | 3,677 | 12.7 | 14.9 | C |
| Vitry-le-François Marne | 10,996 | 18.6 | 19.5 | D |
1 Not graded: over 25% of the index would rest on département averages, where SSMSI doesn’t publish small counts.
3 of its 5 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Saint-Dizier.
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 Saint-Dizier
Is Saint-Dizier safe?
It has more crime per resident than 84% of compared French towns: an average of 14.8 recorded violent incidents and 16.6 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, #4 of 6 in Haute-Marne. Among the 340 French towns of 16,000 to 30,900 people, it is 252nd from the lowest rate. With 15,350 jobs for 8,000 working residents, Saint-Dizier 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 Saint-Dizier?
The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 11% from 2023 to 2025: 35.4 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 31.6 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.
What is the most common recorded offense in Saint-Dizier?
Criminal damage: 235 in 2025. Then other physical violence (160), family violence (152) and theft without violence (144).
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.