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Safety in Châteauroux · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Per resident, Châteauroux records more burglary, vehicle theft and damage than nine in ten compared French towns

Of the 196 compared French towns closest to it in size, it ranks 133rd from the least crime. Add to that, a Safety Grade of D follows from offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Châteauroux over the years 2023 to 2025: #7 of 11 in Indre. Recorded violent crimes ran at 10.3 per 1,000 residents a year, and burglary, vehicle theft and damage at 23.2.

C⁻Violence DBurglary, vehicle theft, damage #7of 11 in Indre 133rdof 196 towns its size

Violence

10.3

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

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

23.2

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

Theft and fraud

16.4

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

Drug use

4.6

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 Châteauroux

÷1.5burglary, 2023 to 2025 133rdof 196 towns its size, lowest rate first

Burglary fell sharply

Police and gendarmerie recorded 157 cases of burglary in Châteauroux in 2023 and 103 in 2025. The grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓

Among towns its size

Among the 196 French towns of 30,100 to 58,000 people with a Safety Grade, Châteauroux is 133rd 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

The grade: D for Châteauroux

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (10.3 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 24% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (23.2 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 10% of compared French towns

A firm grade. Built on 4,313 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 42,963, 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.

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Criminal damage14.1

Theft without violence9.5

Fraud6.7

Drug use5.4

Other physical violence4.6

Theft from vehicles4.1

Family violence3.8

Sexual violence2.6

Burglary2.4

Theft of vehicle parts1.8

Vehicle theft1.8

Robbery without a weapon0.7

Drug dealing0.3

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

Well above the median of towns its size: robbery without a weapon (0.7 per 1,000 against 0.3), criminal damage (14.1 per 1,000 against 8.7) and theft from vehicles (4.1 per 1,000 against 2.6). Not published for 2025: armed robbery.

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 Châteauroux 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 23 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 16 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

Towns its size

Châteauroux against towns its size

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Saint-Joseph Réunion	39,207	9.4	4.7	A
…
130	Goussainville Val-d'Oise	31,301	11.2	22.1	D
131	Mont-de-Marsan Landes	31,592	12.9	20.4	D
132	Saint-Priest Rhône	49,229	8.6	24.8	D
133	Châteauroux Indre	42,963	10.3	23.2	D
134	Vitrolles Bouches-du-Rhône	36,758	7.2	26.3	D
135	Beauvais Oise	55,550	14.7	18.8	D
136	Rosny-sous-Bois Seine-Saint-Denis	47,180	11.5	22.3	D
…
196	Marseille 1er Bouches-du-Rhône	37,599	27.4	70.7	D⁻

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

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

Year by year

The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025

Violence · per 1,000 residents

20239.7

202410.2

202511

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

202323.5

202423.7

202522.3

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	169	169	164
Other physical violence	Violence	165	177	197
Sexual violence	Violence	82	91	111
Armed robbery	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	157	168	103
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	86	78	76
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	218	219	175
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	550	554	604
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	385	400	407
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	36	28	30
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	79	49	78
Fraud	Not in the grade	395	238	287
Drug use	Not in the grade	178	189	230
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	30	19	13

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 Châteauroux

Share of the index resting on Indre 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 communes whose count is hidden. That average stands in for Châteauroux’s hidden cells, never a zero; here it is 0.1% of the index, so the grade rests on Châteauroux’s own figures.

Hidden for Châteauroux	Years	Indre average
Armed robbery	2023–2025	1.8 · 1.2 · 1

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

Neighbors

Châteauroux and the towns around it

DéolsLe PoinçonnetSaint-MaurArdentesVilledieu-sur-IndreLevrouxChâteauroux

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Châteauroux	42,963	10.3	23.2	D
Déols	7,600	5.4	21.6	C
Le Poinçonnet	5,855	1.8	11	A
Saint-Maur	3,537	4.6	16.4	B⁻
Ardentes	3,715	1.2	12.7	A
Villedieu-sur-Indre	2,583	—¹	—¹	—¹
Levroux	2,797	6	13	B

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

Châteauroux’s recorded rate in the graded categories is higher than each of its 5 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 Châteauroux

Is Châteauroux safe?

It has more crime per resident than 88% of compared French towns: an average of 10.3 recorded violent incidents and 23.2 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, #7 of 11 in Indre. Among the 196 French towns of 30,100 to 58,000 people, it is 133rd from the lowest rate. With 23,900 jobs for 16,000 working residents, Châteauroux 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 Châteauroux?

The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025: 33.3 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 33.3 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.

What is the most common recorded offense in Châteauroux?

Criminal damage: 604 in 2025. Then theft without violence (407), fraud (287) and drug use (230).

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.