–Not graded

Safety in Fourques · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Crime in Fourques: the figures, without a grade

In Fourques, the hidden counts would make up 69.9% of the Safety index if the Pyrénées-Orientales average stood in for them, over the 25% we allow, so Fourques has no Safety Grade. Further down, each count published for Fourques is shown.

69.9%of the index would be borrowed

Graded kinds published

1 / 8

in 2025; the rest are hidden

Criminal damage

7.1

per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average

Borrowed

69.9%

of the index would rest on Pyrénées-Orientales averages · limit 25%

Published counts only: no figure on this page includes a borrowed average except the borrowed share itself.

What isn’t published

Why Fourques has no Safety Grade

Share of the index resting on Pyrénées-Orientales averages69.9% · 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 Pyrénées-Orientales communes whose count is hidden, which can be well above or below Fourques’ real figure. 7 of Fourques’ 8 graded kinds are hidden in at least one year. With those averages in place, 69.9% of the index would be borrowed rather than counted, so Fourques gets no Safety Grade: a grade is never mostly borrowed.

Hidden for Fourques	Years	Pyrénées-Orientales average
Family violence	2023–2025	2.6 · 2.1 · 2.6
Other physical violence	2023–2025	2.1 · 2.1 · 2.1
Sexual violence	2023–2025	2.3 · 1.9 · 1.9
Burglary	2023–2025	3 · 2.8 · 2.2
Vehicle theft	2023–2025	2.1 · 2.2 · 2.4
Theft from vehicles	2023–2025	1.9 · 2.3 · 3.1
Criminal damage	2025	2.5

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

Year by year

What was recorded in Fourques, year by year

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Other physical violence	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Sexual violence	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Armed robbery	Violence	0	0	0
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	12	7	n.p.
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	0	n.p.	n.p.
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Fraud	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Drug use	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	0	0	0

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

Fourques and the towns around it

ThuirPonteillaLe BoulouCanohèsBagesPollestresFourques

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Fourques	1,347	—¹	—¹	—¹
Thuir	8,243	10.1	17.8	C
Ponteilla	3,101	—¹	—¹	—¹
Le Boulou	5,487	10.5	24	D
Canohès	6,616	2.5	13.2	A⁻
Bages	4,560	5.1	11.4	A⁻
Pollestres	5,548	4.2	18.1	B⁻

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

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 Fourques

Is Fourques safe?

Fourques has no Safety Grade, because too many of its counts aren’t published. Violence counts are mostly hidden: each was five or fewer in at least one of the last three years.

Why does Fourques have no Safety Grade?

SSMSI doesn’t publish a count when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years) and publishes a Pyrénées-Orientales average in its place. For Fourques, those averages would make 69.9% of the Safety index, over our 25% limit, so we don’t grade it: the letter would describe the département more than the town.

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.