Photo: Clémenceau Lauret · CC BY-SA 4.0For its size, La Possession has less crime per resident than 95% of the 237 compared French towns closest in size
The rate the grade counts dropped 18% from 2023 to 2025. Burglary, vehicle theft and damage is lower than in 75% of compared French towns; violent crime, lower than in only 33%. Its letter overall is B (#8 of 22 in Réunion): close to the middle of compared French towns, from offenses police and gendarmerie recorded through 2023 to 2025. For every 1,000 residents, 9.0 violent crimes and 10.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage were logged a year.
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 La Possession
Theft from vehicles fell sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 215 cases of theft from vehicles in La Possession in 2023 and 60 in 2025. The grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
More violence than burglary, vehicle theft and damage
La Possession recorded an average of 9 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, fewer than in 33% of compared French towns, and 10.5 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, fewer than in 75%. Safety Grade ↓
Among towns its size
Among the 237 French towns of 25,600 to 49,400 people with a Safety Grade, La Possession is 13th 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.
The B for La Possession, and how it is built
A firm grade. Built on 2,131 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 36,568, a few cases more or fewer would move it between B and B.
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, 0.3% 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
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.
Set against 237 towns its size, La Possession is 13th
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sèvremoine Maine-et-Loire | 25,797 | 5.6 | 8.4 | A |
| 2 | Saint-Joseph Réunion | 39,207 | 9.4 | 4.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 10 | L'Haÿ-les-Roses Val-de-Marne | 31,188 | 6.8 | 12.4 | B |
| 11 | Montigny-le-Bretonneux Yvelines | 32,465 | 7.2 | 11.9 | B |
| 12 | Vincennes Val-de-Marne | 48,193 | 4.8 | 14.4 | B |
| 13 | La Possession Réunion | 36,568 | 9 | 10.5 | B |
| 14 | Vanves Hauts-de-Seine | 28,622 | 4.8 | 14.7 | B |
| 15 | Élancourt Yvelines | 26,365 | 8 | 11.6 | B |
| 16 | Saint-Médard-en-Jalles Gironde | 32,910 | 5.9 | 13.7 | B |
| … | |||||
| 34 | Saint-Leu Réunion | 36,163 | 12 | 9.7 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 39 | Sainte-Marie Réunion | 37,093 | 12.3 | 10.3 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 85 | Le Port Réunion | 33,969 | 14.7 | 11.3 | C |
| … | |||||
| 237 | Lyon 2e Rhône | 29,981 | 20 | 85.9 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares La Possession with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to La Possession and up to four from Réunion.
La Possession, 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 | 161 | 168 | 174 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 88 | 65 | 104 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 41 | 91 | 86 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 33 | 23 | 24 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 57 | 38 | 39 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 215 | 93 | 60 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 203 | 200 | 168 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 105 | 100 | 94 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 23 | 20 | 10 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 99 | 104 | 115 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 27 | 34 | 40 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | n.p. | 8 | 6 |
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 La Possession 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 11 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 6 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
La Possession and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Possession | 36,568 | 9 | 10.5 | B |
| Le Port | 33,969 | 14.7 | 11.3 | C |
| Saint-Paul | 108,088 | 11.9 | 13.3 | C |
| Saint-Denis | 155,634 | 12.6 | 11.4 | C+ |
| Les Trois-Bassins | 7,221 | 9.9 | 6.8 | B+ |
| Salazie | 7,268 | 10.8 | 9 | B |
| Sainte-Marie | 37,093 | 12.3 | 10.3 | C+ |
1 of its 6 graded neighbors has a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than La Possession.
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 La Possession
Is La Possession safe?
It has less crime per resident than 59% of compared French towns: an average of 9 recorded violent incidents and 10.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. It grades B for safety, #8 of 22 in Réunion. Among the 237 French towns of 25,600 to 49,400 people, it is 13th from the lowest rate.
Is crime going up in La Possession?
The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 18% from 2023 to 2025: 21.9 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 18 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.
What is the most common recorded offense in La Possession?
Family violence: 174 in 2025. Then criminal damage (168), fraud (115) and other physical violence (104).
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.