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Safety in Saint-Paul · SSMSI, 2023–2025

More violent crime is recorded per resident in Saint-Paul than in 84% of compared French towns

Starting from the least crime, it comes 11th of the 54 compared French towns nearest in size. In a usual year, 11.9 violent crimes and 13.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage are logged per 1,000 inhabitants. Taking everything together, Saint-Paul scores C (#18 of 22 in Réunion): more crime per resident than 66% of compared French towns, measured on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded between 2023 and 2025.

C⁻Violence B⁻Burglary, vehicle theft, damage #18of 22 in Réunion 11thof 54 towns its size

Violence

11.9

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

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

13.3

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

Theft and fraud

9.8

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

Drug use

2.6

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 Saint-Paul

÷2theft from vehicles, 2023 to 2025 16% · 54%of compared French towns have more violence · more burglary, vehicle theft and damage 11thof 54 towns its size, lowest rate first

Theft from vehicles fell sharply

Police and gendarmerie recorded 464 cases of theft from vehicles in Saint-Paul in 2023 and 231 in 2025. The grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓

Ranks worse on violence than on burglary, vehicle theft and damage

Saint-Paul recorded an average of 11.9 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, fewer than in 16% of compared French towns, and 13.3 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, fewer than in 54%. Safety Grade ↓

Among towns its size

Among the 54 French towns of 75,700 to 145,900 people with a Safety Grade, Saint-Paul is 11th 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

What’s behind Saint-Paul’s grade

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (11.9 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 16% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (13.3 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 54% of compared French towns

CC⁺

A fairly firm grade. Built on 8,166 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 108,088, a few cases more or fewer would move it between C 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, under 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

Theft without violence6.7

Criminal damage6.5

Family violence5.8

Other physical violence4.4

Fraud4.3

Drug use3.7

Sexual violence2.7

Theft from vehicles2.1

Vehicle theft1.8

Burglary0.8

Theft of vehicle parts0.6

Robbery without a weapon0.4

Drug dealing0.2

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

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 50,000 or more.

Towns its size

Saint-Paul against towns its size

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Le Tampon Réunion	82,579	10.5	6.9	B⁺
…
8	Rueil-Malmaison Hauts-de-Seine	82,874	6.1	15.8	B⁻
9	Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Val-de-Marne	76,572	6.1	16.2	B⁻
10	Colombes Hauts-de-Seine	91,053	7.3	15.4	C⁺
11	Saint-Paul Réunion	108,088	11.9	13.3	C
12	Champigny-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne	78,072	9.5	16	C
13	Paris 14e Paris	136,455	8.1	18	C
14	Annecy Haute-Savoie	132,117	8	18.3	C
…
17	Saint-Pierre Réunion	85,038	15.7	12.3	C
…
54	Lyon 7e Rhône	88,326	10.4	56.4	D⁻

Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Saint-Paul 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-Paul and up to four from Réunion.

For every 1,000 residents

Crime in Saint-Paul 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 13 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 10 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

Year by year

The graded rate, 2023 to 2025: about level

Violence · per 1,000 residents

202310.6

202412.1

202512.9

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

202313.5

202415.4

202511.2

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	479	593	627
Other physical violence	Violence	395	410	471
Sexual violence	Violence	262	301	293
Armed robbery	Violence	8	n.p.	n.p.
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	82	102	83
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	194	169	196
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	464	544	231
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	714	848	700
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	610	638	720
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	42	46	48
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	56	61	64
Fraud	Not in the grade	363	382	464
Drug use	Not in the grade	204	231	398
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	37	28	24

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 Saint-Paul

Share of the index resting on Réunion averagesunder 0.1% · 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 Réunion communes whose count is hidden. That average stands in for Saint-Paul’s hidden cells, never a zero; here it is under 0.1% of the index, so the grade rests on Saint-Paul’s own figures.

Hidden for Saint-Paul	Years	Réunion average
Armed robbery	2024, 2025	2.4 · 1.6

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

Neighbors

Saint-Paul and the towns around it

Les Trois-BassinsLe PortLa PossessionSaint-LeuLes AvironsCilaosSaint-Paul

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Saint-Paul	108,088	11.9	13.3	C
Les Trois-Bassins	7,221	9.9	6.8	B⁺
Le Port	33,969	14.7	11.3	C
La Possession	36,568	9	10.5	B
Saint-Leu	36,163	12	9.7	B⁻
Les Avirons	11,536	7.7	6.2	A
Cilaos	5,040	12.7	9.2	B⁻

5 of its 6 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Saint-Paul.

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 Saint-Paul

Is Saint-Paul safe?

It has more crime per resident than 66% of compared French towns: an average of 11.9 recorded violent incidents and 13.3 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, #18 of 22 in Réunion. Among the 54 French towns of 75,700 to 145,900 people, it is 11th from the lowest rate.

Is crime going up in Saint-Paul?

The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025: 24 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 24.1 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-Paul?

Theft without violence: 720 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then criminal damage (700), family violence (627) and other physical violence (471).

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.