Photo: Paul.schrepfer · CC BY 4.0Tourcoing has more crime per resident than nine in ten compared French towns
The crimes the grade counts fell 6% per resident from 2023 to 2025. At 2.5 per 1,000 residents, theft of vehicle parts in Tourcoing runs well past the 1.3 of a typical town its size (246 recorded in 2025). The Safety Grade comes out at D, drawn from offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Tourcoing through 2023 to 2025: #166 of 189 in Nord. Behind the grade sit 13.5 violent crimes and 23.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 people a year.
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 Tourcoing
Among towns its size
Among the 54 French towns of 69,100 to 133,300 people with a Safety Grade, Tourcoing 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.
What’s behind Tourcoing’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 10,984 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 98,772, a few cases more or fewer would move it between D and D.
Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Tourcoing.
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: theft of vehicle parts (2.5 per 1,000 against 1.3) and vehicle theft (3.2 per 1,000 against 2.1).
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.
Crime in Tourcoing 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 24 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 17 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Among 54 towns its size, Tourcoing ranks 38th for the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Tampon Réunion | 82,579 | 10.5 | 6.9 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Dunkerque Nord | 86,263 | 12.9 | 19.1 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 35 | Metz Moselle | 122,572 | 12.6 | 22.7 | D |
| 36 | Lyon 8e Rhône | 85,943 | 9.9 | 27 | D |
| 37 | Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 103,671 | 13.9 | 23.1 | D |
| 38 | Tourcoing Nord | 98,772 | 13.5 | 23.6 | D |
| 39 | Fort-de-France Martinique | 75,506 | 15.8 | 21.4 | D |
| 40 | Saint-Nazaire Loire-Atlantique | 74,568 | 10.1 | 27.3 | D |
| 41 | Marseille 13e Bouches-du-Rhône | 95,112 | 9.1 | 29.8 | D |
| … | |||||
| 50 | Roubaix Nord | 98,286 | 17.5 | 32.5 | D− |
| … | |||||
| 54 | Lyon 7e Rhône | 88,326 | 10.4 | 56.4 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Tourcoing with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Tourcoing and up to four from Nord.
Tourcoing, 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 | 668 | 616 | 595 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 409 | 498 | 469 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 233 | 227 | 250 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | 14 | 14 | 8 |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 376 | 308 | 282 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 332 | 380 | 320 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 544 | 678 | 449 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 1,154 | 1,044 | 1,116 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 991 | 812 | 945 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | 137 | 138 | 101 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 147 | 177 | 246 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 760 | 759 | 731 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 483 | 486 | 729 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | 56 | 44 | 52 |
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).
Tourcoing and the towns around it
5 of its 6 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Tourcoing.
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 Tourcoing
Is Tourcoing safe?
It has more crime per resident than 93% of compared French towns: an average of 13.5 recorded violent incidents and 23.6 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, #166 of 189 in Nord. Among the 54 French towns of 69,100 to 133,300 people, it is 38th from the lowest rate.
Is crime going up in Tourcoing?
The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 6% from 2023 to 2025: 37.8 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 35.3 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.
What is the most common recorded offense in Tourcoing?
Criminal damage: 1,116 in 2025. Then theft without violence (945), fraud (731) and drug use (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 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.