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Safety in Amboise · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Recorded crime per resident is higher in Amboise than in 93% of compared French towns

The crimes the grade counts rose 12% per resident from 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 14.5 violent crimes and 22.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 people a year. Scored on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Amboise across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on D for safety: #33 of 37 in Indre-et-Loire. Theft of vehicle parts stands out: 2.6 per 1,000 residents in the town, against 1.3 in a typical town its size, with 34 recorded in 2025.

DViolence DBurglary, vehicle theft, damage #33of 37 in Indre-et-Loire

Violence

14.5

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

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

22.5

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

Theft and fraud

14.6

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

Drug use

2.9

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.

Safety Grade

Amboise: D for safety, and why

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (14.5 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 7% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (22.5 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 11% of compared French towns

A firm grade. Built on 1,434 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 12,937, a few cases more or fewer would move it between D and D.

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.

Towns its size

Among 596 towns its size, Amboise ranks 545th for the least graded crime

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Grand-Santi French Guiana	9,668	4.9	1.6	A⁺
…
94	Fondettes Indre-et-Loire	10,954	6.9	12	B
…
97	Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire	17,029	5.2	13.8	B
…
190	Saint-Avertin Indre-et-Loire	14,999	4.4	17.8	B⁻
…
295	Montlouis-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire	11,335	8.4	17.2	C
…
542	Sedan Ardennes	16,667	14.8	21.9	D
543	Chassieu Rhône	11,208	5.2	31.6	D
544	Lieusaint Seine-et-Marne	14,017	10.8	26	D
545	Amboise Indre-et-Loire	12,937	14.5	22.5	D
546	Firminy Loire	17,060	13.3	23.8	D
547	Provins Seine-et-Marne	11,632	18.8	18.7	D
548	Saint-Jean-de-Védas Hérault	13,328	9.2	28.4	D
…
596	Paris 1er Paris	15,114	45.5	67.1	D⁻

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

Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Amboise and up to four from Indre-et-Loire.

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Criminal damage10.9

Theft without violence8.5

Family violence7.6

Fraud5.7

Other physical violence5.1

Drug use4.5

Burglary4.3

Sexual violence4

Theft of vehicle parts2.6

Vehicle theft2.6

Theft from vehicles2.5

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

Well above the median of towns its size: sexual violence (4 per 1,000 against 1.8), theft of vehicle parts (2.6 per 1,000 against 1.3) and family violence (7.6 per 1,000 against 3.9). Not published for 2025: armed robbery, robbery without a weapon 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.

For every 1,000 residents

Crime in Amboise 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 15 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

Year by year

Amboise, year by year

Violence · per 1,000 residents

202312.8

202414

202516.7

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

202320.3

202426.9

202520.3

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	79	92	98
Other physical violence	Violence	51	54	66
Sexual violence	Violence	35	35	52
Armed robbery	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	41	65	56
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	48	47	33
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	36	106	32
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	137	130	141
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	110	115	110
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	27	42	34
Fraud	Not in the grade	75	82	74
Drug use	Not in the grade	19	37	58
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 isn’t published

1 kind of crime isn’t published for Amboise

Share of the index resting on Indre-et-Loire averages0.1% · limit 25%

Over 25%, no Safety Grade; over 10%, the grade says it is less certain.

SSMSI doesn’t publish a commune’s count when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years), and publishes instead the average among the Indre-et-Loire communes whose count is hidden. That average stands in for Amboise’s hidden cells, never a zero; here it is 0.1% of the index, so the grade rests on Amboise’s own figures.

Hidden for Amboise	Years	Indre-et-Loire average
Armed robbery	2023–2025	0.7 · 0.7 · 0.7

The counts SSMSI keeps back for Amboise, and what the grade uses in their place.

Neighbors

Amboise and the towns around it

Nazelles-NégronLa Croix-en-TouraineSaint-Martin-le-BeauBléréAthée-sur-CherVernou-sur-BrenneAmboise

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Amboise	12,937	14.5	22.5	D
Nazelles-Négron	3,776	7.2	10.2	B⁺
La Croix-en-Touraine	2,543	3.8	13.6	B⁺
Saint-Martin-le-Beau	3,216	—¹	—¹	—¹
Bléré	5,352	10.4	15.8	C
Athée-sur-Cher	2,855	—¹	—¹	—¹
Vernou-sur-Brenne	2,870	—¹	—¹	—¹

¹ Not graded: over 25% of the index would rest on département averages, where SSMSI doesn’t publish small counts.

Amboise’s recorded rate in the graded categories is higher than each of its 3 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.

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Questions about safety in Amboise

Is Amboise safe?

It has more crime per resident than 93% of compared French towns: an average of 14.5 recorded violent incidents and 22.5 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, #33 of 37 in Indre-et-Loire. With 6,550 jobs for 4,850 working residents, Amboise 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 Amboise?

The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 12% from 2023 to 2025: 33.1 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 37 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 Amboise?

Criminal damage: 141 in 2025. Then theft without violence (110), family violence (98) and fraud (74).

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.