Photo: Fabienamnet · CC BY-SA 3.0Le Chambon-Feugerolles stands out for drug dealing: 7.2 times the rate of a typical town its size
The rate the grade counts dropped 19% from 2023 to 2025. Year on year, 7.6 violent crimes and 21.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage occur per 1,000 residents. Across all the graded crimes, Le Chambon-Feugerolles lands on C− (#39 of 48 in Loire): more crime per resident than 78% of compared French towns, on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded from 2023 to 2025. Counting from the least crime, it is 433rd of the 639 compared French towns nearest it in size.
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 Le Chambon-Feugerolles
Vehicle theft fell sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 59 cases of vehicle theft in Le Chambon-Feugerolles in 2023 and 29 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
Ranks better on violence than on burglary, vehicle theft and damage
Le Chambon-Feugerolles recorded an average of 7.6 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, fewer than in 45% of compared French towns, and 21.3 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, fewer than in 14%. Safety Grade ↓
Among towns its size
Among the 639 French towns of 8,600 to 16,600 people with a Safety Grade, Le Chambon-Feugerolles is 433rd 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 grade: C− for Le Chambon-Feugerolles
A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,065 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 12,314, 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, 0.2% 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
Well above the median of towns its size: drug dealing (1.9 per 1,000 against 0.3), theft of vehicle parts (4.5 per 1,000 against 1.3) and drug use (11 per 1,000 against 4). 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.
Le Chambon-Feugerolles, 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 | 26 | 43 | 38 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 44 | 39 | 39 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 19 | 16 | 14 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 64 | 21 | 45 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 59 | 29 | 29 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 25 | 35 | 23 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 178 | 131 | 148 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 45 | 34 | 51 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 41 | 37 | 56 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 56 | 57 | 80 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 63 | 82 | 136 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | 13 | 13 | 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).
Le Chambon-Feugerolles against towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand-Santi French Guiana | 9,668 | 4.9 | 1.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 36 | Veauche Loire | 8,975 | 4 | 11.5 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 69 | Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert Loire | 15,764 | 4.4 | 13 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 119 | Roche-la-Molière Loire | 9,843 | 3.8 | 15.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 166 | Riorges Loire | 11,139 | 6 | 14.9 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 430 | Fos-sur-Mer Bouches-du-Rhône | 15,862 | 7.9 | 20.9 | C− |
| 431 | Bar-le-Duc Meuse | 14,607 | 12.6 | 16.2 | C− |
| 432 | Vidauban Var | 12,608 | 9.5 | 19.3 | C− |
| 433 | Le Chambon-Feugerolles Loire | 12,314 | 7.6 | 21.3 | C− |
| 434 | Bollène Vaucluse | 14,024 | 12 | 17 | C− |
| 435 | Rivière-Salée Martinique | 11,829 | 15.7 | 13.3 | C− |
| 436 | Yvetot Seine-Maritime | 11,438 | 13.2 | 15.8 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 639 | Paris 1er Paris | 15,114 | 45.5 | 67.1 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Le Chambon-Feugerolles with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Le Chambon-Feugerolles and up to four from Loire.
Crime in Le Chambon-Feugerolles 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 21 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 9 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Le Chambon-Feugerolles and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Chambon-Feugerolles | 12,314 | 7.6 | 21.3 | C− |
| La Ricamarie | 8,039 | 10.1 | 25.4 | D |
| Firminy | 17,060 | 13.3 | 23.8 | D |
| Roche-la-Molière | 9,843 | 3.8 | 15.6 | B |
| Unieux | 8,514 | 8.2 | 16.4 | C+ |
| Fraisses | 3,872 | 3.2 | 14.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Just-Malmont Haute-Loire | 4,239 | 2.1 | 8.9 | A+ |
4 of its 6 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Le Chambon-Feugerolles.
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 Le Chambon-Feugerolles
Is Le Chambon-Feugerolles safe?
It has more crime per resident than 78% of compared French towns: an average of 7.6 recorded violent incidents and 21.3 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, #39 of 48 in Loire. Among the 639 French towns of 8,600 to 16,600 people, it is 433rd from the lowest rate.
Is crime going up in Le Chambon-Feugerolles?
The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 19% from 2023 to 2025: 33.8 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 27.3 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 Le Chambon-Feugerolles?
Criminal damage: 148 in 2025. Then drug use (136), fraud (80) and theft of vehicle parts (56).
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.