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Safety in Nancy · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Nancy has more crime per resident than nine in ten compared French towns

Counting offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Nancy from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety. Violent crime here is higher than in 91% of compared French towns; burglary, vehicle theft and damage, higher than in 90%. In a usual year, 13.9 violent crimes and 23.1 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage are logged per 1,000 inhabitants.

DViolence DBurglary, vehicle theft, damage 38thof 57 towns its size

Violence

13.9

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

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

23.1

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

Theft and fraud

29.6

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

Drug use

5.4

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 Nancy

1.6jobs per working resident: Nancy draws people from neighboring communes 38thof 57 towns its size, lowest rate first

Counted where it happens

69,200 jobs are based in Nancy, for 44,200 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 57 French towns of 72,600 to 140,000 people with a Safety Grade, Nancy is 38th 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

The D for Nancy, and how it is built

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (13.9 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 9% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (23.1 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 10% of compared French towns

A firm grade. Built on 11,487 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 103,671, a few cases more or fewer would not change the grade: D.

Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Nancy.

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

For every 1,000 residents

Crime in Nancy 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 30 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Theft without violence21.7

Criminal damage11.9

Fraud7.1

Theft from vehicles7

Other physical violence6.8

Drug use5.6

Family violence4.1

Burglary3.3

Sexual violence3.1

Robbery without a weapon1.6

Drug dealing1.3

Vehicle theft1.2

Theft of vehicle parts1

Armed robbery0.2

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

Well above the median of towns its size: theft from vehicles (7 per 1,000 against 4.3), theft without violence (21.7 per 1,000 against 13.9) and other physical violence (6.8 per 1,000 against 4.5).

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

Nancy is 38th of 57 French towns of 72,600 to 140,000 people

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Le Tampon Réunion	82,579	10.5	6.9	B⁺
…
35	La Rochelle Charente-Maritime	79,851	11.4	23.8	D
36	Metz Moselle	122,572	12.6	22.7	D
37	Lyon 8e Rhône	85,943	9.9	27	D
38	Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle	103,671	13.9	23.1	D
39	Tourcoing Nord	98,772	13.5	23.6	D
40	Tours Indre-et-Loire	139,259	12.4	24.7	D
41	Fort-de-France Martinique	75,506	15.8	21.4	D
…
57	Lyon 7e Rhône	88,326	10.4	56.4	D⁻

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

Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Nancy and up to four from Meurthe-et-Moselle.

Year by year

The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025

Violence · per 1,000 residents

202314.1

202413.3

202514.2

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

202324.2

202421.5

202523.4

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	419	415	428
Other physical violence	Violence	710	668	707
Sexual violence	Violence	321	285	317
Armed robbery	Violence	16	16	16
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	252	275	339
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	157	126	127
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	871	695	729
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	1,227	1,136	1,235
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	2,352	2,299	2,248
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	142	171	164
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	110	90	99
Fraud	Not in the grade	839	727	741
Drug use	Not in the grade	602	505	583
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	139	136	132

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

Nancy and the towns around it

LaxouMaxévilleMalzévilleSaint-MaxVandœuvre-lès-NancyJarville-la-MalgrangeNancy

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Nancy	103,671	13.9	23.1	D
Laxou	14,771	8.8	19.6	C⁻
Maxéville	10,090	11.3	16.2	C
Malzéville	7,820	8.5	18.1	C
Saint-Max	9,913	6.5	11.6	B⁺
Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy	29,942	8.2	16.5	C⁺
Jarville-la-Malgrange	9,356	10.3	15.5	C

Nancy’s recorded rate in the graded categories is higher than each of its 6 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.

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Questions about safety in Nancy

Is Nancy safe?

It has more crime per resident than 93% of compared French towns: an average of 13.9 recorded violent incidents and 23.1 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. Among the 57 French towns of 72,600 to 140,000 people, it is 38th from the lowest rate. With 69,200 jobs for 44,200 working residents, Nancy 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 Nancy?

The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025: 38.3 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 37.6 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.

What is the most common recorded offense in Nancy?

Theft without violence: 2,248 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then criminal damage (1,235), fraud (741) and theft from vehicles (729).

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.