Photo: moi-même · CC BY 3.0Maxéville records drug dealing at 11.7 times the rate of a typical town its size
The rate the grade counts dropped 13% from 2023 to 2025. Violence and property crime split as 11.3 violent crimes and 16.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 residents a year. Overall, it grades C for safety (#47 of 56 in Meurthe-et-Moselle). Counting from the least crime, it is 531st of the 788 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 Maxéville
Other physical violence fell sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 68 cases of other physical violence in Maxéville in 2023 and 42 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
Counted where it happens
7,700 jobs are based in Maxéville, for 3,500 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 ↓
Among towns its size
Among the 788 French towns of 7,100 to 13,600 people with a Safety Grade, Maxéville is 531st 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.
What’s behind Maxéville’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 829 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 10,090, 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, 0.3% 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
Well above the median of towns its size: drug dealing (3.2 per 1,000 against 0.3) and theft without violence (13.5 per 1,000 against 7). 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.
Maxéville, 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 | 46 | 44 | 44 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 68 | 32 | 42 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 23 | 29 | 12 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 24 | 18 | 18 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 13 | 11 | 11 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 37 | 27 | 28 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 94 | 96 | 112 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 91 | 61 | 136 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 9 | 9 | 8 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 62 | 53 | 55 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 38 | 45 | 33 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | 27 | 17 | 32 |
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).
Set against 788 towns its size, Maxéville is 531st
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand-Santi French Guiana | 9,668 | 4.9 | 1.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 147 | Saint-Max Meurthe-et-Moselle | 9,913 | 6.5 | 11.6 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 303 | Saint-Nicolas-de-Port Meurthe-et-Moselle | 7,359 | 9.8 | 11.9 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 380 | Dombasle-sur-Meurthe Meurthe-et-Moselle | 9,424 | 9.7 | 13.6 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 447 | Essey-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 8,670 | 8.9 | 16.3 | C |
| … | |||||
| 528 | Tarare Rhône | 10,893 | 11.3 | 16.1 | C |
| 529 | Saint-Amand-Montrond Cher | 9,899 | 12.3 | 15.1 | C |
| 530 | Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 9,720 | 9 | 18.4 | C |
| 531 | Maxéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 10,090 | 11.3 | 16.2 | C |
| 532 | Bondues Nord | 9,747 | 4.2 | 23.3 | C |
| 533 | Courcelles-lès-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 7,830 | 9.7 | 17.8 | C |
| 534 | Châlette-sur-Loing Loiret | 12,677 | 9.2 | 18.3 | C |
| … | |||||
| 788 | Argelès-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 10,616 | 21.1 | 40.6 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Maxéville with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Maxéville and up to four from Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Crime in Maxéville 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 16 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 15 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Maxéville and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maxéville | 10,090 | 11.3 | 16.2 | C |
| Laxou | 14,771 | 8.8 | 19.6 | C− |
| Malzéville | 7,820 | 8.5 | 18.1 | C |
| Nancy | 103,671 | 13.9 | 23.1 | D |
| Champigneulles | 6,551 | 8 | 14 | B− |
| Saint-Max | 9,913 | 6.5 | 11.6 | B+ |
| Villers-lès-Nancy | 14,718 | 5.1 | 12.3 | B+ |
4 of its 6 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Maxéville.
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 Maxéville
Is Maxéville safe?
It has more crime per resident than 74% of compared French towns: an average of 11.3 recorded violent incidents and 16.2 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, #47 of 56 in Meurthe-et-Moselle. Among the 788 French towns of 7,100 to 13,600 people, it is 531st from the lowest rate. With 7,700 jobs for 3,500 working residents, Maxéville 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 Maxéville?
The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 13% from 2023 to 2025: 30.3 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 26.5 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 Maxéville?
Theft without violence: 136 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then criminal damage (112), fraud (55) and family violence (44).
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.