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Safety in Nilvange · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Nilvange records family violence at 2 times the rate of a typical town its size

The graded rate rose 29% from 2023 to 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 5.7 violent crimes and 13.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage were recorded. Its letter overall is B (#34 of 68 in Moselle): close to the middle of compared French towns, from offenses police and gendarmerie recorded through 2023 to 2025. Of the 1,628 compared French towns closest to it in size, it ranks 982nd from the least crime.

BViolence B⁻Burglary, vehicle theft, damage #34of 68 in Moselle 982ndof 1,628 towns its size

Violence

5.7

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

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

13.7

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

Theft and fraud

9.4

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

Drug use

–

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 Nilvange

×1.6criminal damage, 2023 to 2025 982ndof 1,628 towns its size, lowest rate first

Criminal damage rose sharply

Police and gendarmerie recorded 31 cases of criminal damage in Nilvange in 2023 and 49 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓

Among towns its size

Among the 1,628 French towns of 3,000 to 5,900 people with a Safety Grade, Nilvange is 982nd 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 Nilvange’s grade

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (5.7 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 64% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (13.7 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 52% of compared French towns

B⁻B⁺

A fairly firm grade. Built on 242 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 4,341, a few cases more or fewer would move it between B− and B+.

Hidden counts: for other physical violence, sexual violence and vehicle theft, 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, 4.2% of the index here. What isn’t published ↓

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

Year by year

Nilvange, year by year

Violence · per 1,000 residents

20236.3

20243.2

20257.6

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

202311.6

202414.1

202515.5

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	19	11	30
Other physical violence	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Sexual violence	Violence	7	n.p.	n.p.
Armed robbery	Violence	0	0	0
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	10	5	11
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	8	8	6
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	31	47	49
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	10	20	14
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	0	0	n.p.
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Fraud	Not in the grade	24	31	23
Drug use	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.

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).

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Criminal damage11.3

Family violence6.9

Fraud5.3

Theft without violence3.2

Burglary2.5

Theft from vehicles1.4

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

Well above the median of towns its size: family violence (6.9 per 1,000 against 3.4) and criminal damage (11.3 per 1,000 against 6.6). None recorded in 2025: armed robbery. Not published for 2025: other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft, robbery without a weapon, theft of vehicle parts, drug use and drug dealing.

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 2,500 to 10,000.

What isn’t published

3 kinds of crime aren’t published for Nilvange

Share of the index resting on Moselle averages4.2% · 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 Moselle communes whose count is hidden. That average stands in for Nilvange’s hidden cells, never a zero; here it is 4.2% of the index, so the grade rests on Nilvange’s own figures.

Hidden for Nilvange	Years	Moselle average
Other physical violence	2023–2025	1.4 · 1.4 · 1.5
Sexual violence	2024, 2025	1.3 · 1.3
Vehicle theft	2023–2025	1.3 · 1.2 · 1.2

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

Towns its size

Set against 1,628 towns its size, Nilvange is 982nd

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Mouguerre Pyrénées-Atlantiques	5,428	0.8	5.5	A⁺
…
47	Créhange Moselle	3,691	3.8	5.7	A⁺
…
52	Bousse Moselle	3,236	1.4	8.2	A⁺
…
66	Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold Moselle	3,572	2.9	7.1	A⁺
…
99	Spicheren Moselle	3,143	2.9	7.9	A⁺
…
979	Saint-Laurent-du-Pont Isère	4,490	6.1	13.3	B
980	Villeneuve-de-la-Raho Pyrénées-Orientales	4,470	3.2	16.2	B
981	Forcalquier Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	5,222	8.7	10.7	B
982	Nilvange Moselle	4,341	5.7	13.7	B
983	Vergèze Gard	5,788	3.7	15.7	B
984	Saint-Chéron Essonne	5,132	8.6	10.8	B
985	Montmirail Marne	3,535	9.2	10.3	B
…
1628	Saint-Tropez Var	3,582	24.8	53.3	D⁻

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

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

For every 1,000 residents

Crime in Nilvange 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 14 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 9 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

Neighbors

Nilvange and the towns around it

KnutangeHayangeAlgrangeNeufchefSerémange-ErzangeFontoyNilvange

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Nilvange	4,341	5.7	13.7	B
Knutange	3,199	8.3	17.2	C
Hayange	15,806	9.2	11.7	B⁻
Algrange	5,802	7.9	10.8	B
Neufchef	2,650	—¹	—¹	—¹
Serémange-Erzange	4,251	4	9	A
Fontoy	3,184	3	8.3	A⁺

¹ Not graded: over 25% of the index would rest on département averages, where SSMSI doesn’t publish small counts.

3 of its 5 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Nilvange.

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.

How the Safety Grade works in France →

Questions about safety in Nilvange

Is Nilvange safe?

It has less crime per resident than 59% of compared French towns: an average of 5.7 recorded violent incidents and 13.7 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, #34 of 68 in Moselle. Among the 1,628 French towns of 3,000 to 5,900 people, it is 982nd from the lowest rate.

Is crime going up in Nilvange?

The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 29% from 2023 to 2025: 17.9 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 23 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 Nilvange?

Criminal damage: 49 in 2025. Then family violence (30), fraud (23) and theft without violence (14).

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 4, 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.