Photo: Danilo Samà · www.danilosama.ph · CC BY-SA 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Paris 12e than in 89% of compared French towns
The graded rate fell 6% from 2023 to 2025. Still, the Safety Grade comes out at D, drawn from offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Paris 12e through 2023 to 2025: #8 of 20 in Paris. At 25.1 per 1,000 residents, drug use in the town runs well past the 6.4 of a typical town its size (3,463 recorded in 2025). The yearly rates were 12.5 violent crimes and 21.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 residents.
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 Paris 12e
Burglary fell sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 523 cases of burglary in Paris 12e in 2023 and 311 in 2025. The grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
Counted where it happens
120,550 jobs are based in Paris 12e, for 71,150 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 44 French towns of 96,600 to 186,300 people with a Safety Grade, Paris 12e is 22nd 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: D for Paris 12e
A firm grade. Built on 14,047 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 138,024, a few cases more or fewer would not change the grade: D.
Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Paris 12e.
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 use (25.1 per 1,000 against 6.4), theft without violence (50.1 per 1,000 against 13.9) and robbery without a weapon (3.8 per 1,000 against 1.1).
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 Paris 12e 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 64 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Paris 12e, 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 | 399 | 334 | 342 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 860 | 808 | 909 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 414 | 488 | 519 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | 32 | 27 | 27 |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 523 | 403 | 311 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 377 | 304 | 282 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 987 | 1,073 | 1,004 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 1,284 | 1,138 | 1,202 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 7,834 | 7,222 | 6,916 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | 579 | 534 | 522 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 259 | 210 | 189 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 1,556 | 1,499 | 1,543 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 1,840 | 3,731 | 3,463 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | 198 | 189 | 212 |
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).
Paris 12e is 22nd of 44 French towns of 96,600 to 186,300 people
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boulogne-Billancourt Hauts-de-Seine | 119,019 | 5.3 | 15.3 | B− |
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| 3 | Paris 20e Paris | 185,140 | 9.7 | 14.4 | C+ |
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| 5 | Paris 14e Paris | 136,455 | 8.1 | 18 | C |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Paris 13e Paris | 181,271 | 9.9 | 16.6 | C |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Paris 11e Paris | 138,170 | 9.3 | 19.5 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Toulon Var | 179,116 | 12 | 20.7 | D |
| 20 | Caen Calvados | 109,400 | 12.2 | 21 | D |
| 21 | Limoges Haute-Vienne | 129,937 | 10.8 | 22.5 | D |
| 22 | Paris 12e Paris | 138,024 | 12.5 | 21.5 | D |
| 23 | Argenteuil Val-d'Oise | 106,130 | 11.5 | 22.9 | D |
| 24 | Paris 19e Paris | 178,691 | 11.9 | 22.8 | D |
| 25 | Paris 18e Paris | 183,127 | 11 | 23.9 | D |
| … | |||||
| 44 | Grenoble Isère | 156,140 | 13.7 | 50.3 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Paris 12e with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Paris 12e and up to four from Paris.
Paris 12e and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris 12e | 138,024 | 12.5 | 21.5 | D |
| Saint-Mandé Val-de-Marne | 21,071 | 4.9 | 18.5 | C+ |
| Paris 11e | 138,170 | 9.3 | 19.5 | C− |
| Charenton-le-Pont Val-de-Marne | 28,830 | 6.3 | 16.7 | C+ |
| Paris 20e | 185,140 | 9.7 | 14.4 | C+ |
| Paris 4e | 27,332 | 15.2 | 32.5 | D− |
| Paris 13e | 181,271 | 9.9 | 16.6 | C |
5 of its 6 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Paris 12e.
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 Paris 12e
Is Paris 12e safe?
It has more crime per resident than 89% of compared French towns: an average of 12.5 recorded violent incidents and 21.5 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, #8 of 20 in Paris. Among the 44 French towns of 96,600 to 186,300 people, it is 22nd from the lowest rate. With 120,550 jobs for 71,150 working residents, Paris 12e 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 Paris 12e?
The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 6% from 2023 to 2025: 35.3 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 33.3 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.
What is the most common recorded offense in Paris 12e?
Theft without violence: 6,916 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then drug use (3,463), fraud (1,543) and criminal damage (1,202).
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.