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Safety in Issoudun · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Recorded crime per resident is higher in Issoudun than in 96% of compared French towns

Violent crime here is higher than in 97% of compared French towns; burglary, vehicle theft and damage, higher than in 89%. Scored on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Issoudun across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on D− for safety. Per resident, the graded crimes were up 8% from 2023 to 2025. For every 1,000 residents, 18.1 violent crimes and 22.8 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage were logged a year.

D⁻Violence DBurglary, vehicle theft, damage

Violence

18.1

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

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

22.8

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

Theft and fraud

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

Drug use

3.6

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 Issoudun

×3.2burglary, 2023 to 2025 1.8jobs per working resident: Issoudun draws people from neighboring communes

Burglary rose sharply

Police and gendarmerie recorded 23 cases of burglary in Issoudun in 2023 and 73 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓

Counted where it happens

7,000 jobs are based in Issoudun, for 3,900 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 ↓

Written from the SSMSI and INSEE data on this page. Figures are offenses police and gendarmerie recorded, not convictions.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Issoudun’s grade

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (18.1 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 3% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (22.8 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 11% of compared French towns

D⁻D

A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,369 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 11,159, a few cases more or fewer would move it between D− and D.

Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Issoudun.

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

Towns its size

Issoudun places 697th of 724 towns its size, the least crime first

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Grand-Santi French Guiana	9,668	4.9	1.6	A⁺
…
694	Bandol Var	8,267	9.7	30.4	D
695	Condé-sur-l'Escaut Nord	9,253	18	22.3	D
696	Dinan Côtes-d'Armor	14,764	16.3	24.3	D⁻
697	Issoudun Indre	11,159	18.1	22.8	D⁻
698	Billy-Montigny Pas-de-Calais	7,937	17.7	23.3	D⁻
699	Arcachon Gironde	11,092	11	30.4	D⁻
700	Portet-sur-Garonne Haute-Garonne	9,782	9.4	32.4	D⁻
…
724	Pointe-à-Pitre Guadeloupe	15,040	35.7	49.3	D⁻

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

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

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Criminal damage12.5

Fraud7.3

Family violence6.6

Theft without violence6.6

Other physical violence6.5

Burglary6.5

Drug use5.6

Vehicle theft3.2

Theft from vehicles3.2

Sexual violence3.1

Theft of vehicle parts2.3

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

Well above the median of towns its size: burglary (6.5 per 1,000 against 2.9), other physical violence (6.5 per 1,000 against 3.3) and theft of vehicle parts (2.3 per 1,000 against 1.3). None recorded in 2025: armed robbery. Not published for 2025: 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 Issoudun 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 15 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

Year by year

Issoudun, year by year

Violence · per 1,000 residents

202318.6

202419.3

202516.3

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

202320.3

202422.7

202525.5

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	92	98	74
Other physical violence	Violence	84	72	73
Sexual violence	Violence	32	45	35
Armed robbery	Violence	0	0	0
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	23	61	73
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	24	20	36
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	41	29	36
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	138	143	140
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	73	99	74
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	37	44	26
Fraud	Not in the grade	87	87	82
Drug use	Not in the grade	20	38	62
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).

Neighbors

Issoudun and the towns around it

Saint-Florent-sur-CherDéolsArdentesMéreauChâteaurouxMehun-sur-YèvreIssoudun

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Issoudun	11,159	18.1	22.8	D⁻
Saint-Florent-sur-Cher Cher	6,463	7	18.3	C
Déols	7,600	5.4	21.6	C
Ardentes	3,715	1.2	12.7	A
Méreau Cher	2,632	—¹	—¹	—¹
Châteauroux	42,963	10.3	23.2	D
Mehun-sur-Yèvre Cher	6,380	6	17.7	C⁺

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

Issoudun’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 Issoudun

Is Issoudun safe?

It has more crime per resident than 96% of compared French towns: an average of 18.1 recorded violent incidents and 22.8 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. With 7,000 jobs for 3,900 working residents, Issoudun 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 Issoudun?

The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 8% from 2023 to 2025: 38.9 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 41.8 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 Issoudun?

Criminal damage: 140 in 2025. Then fraud (82), family violence (74) and theft without violence (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.