Photo: This picture belongs to Xavier Caré . · CC BY-SA 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Lyon 3e than in 98% of compared French towns
Robbery without a weapon stands out: 6.6 per 1,000 residents in Lyon 3e, against 1.1 in a typical town its size, with 663 recorded in 2025. Graded on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded here from 2023 to 2025, it scores D− for safety: #101 of 107 in Rhône. Add to that, the crimes the grade counts rose 6% per resident from 2023 to 2025. Typical years here bring 11.0 violent crimes plus 34.9 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 Lyon 3e
Counted where it happens
88,850 jobs are based in Lyon 3e, for 50,950 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 54 French towns of 70,500 to 135,900 people with a Safety Grade, Lyon 3e is 47th 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 Lyon 3e’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 13,864 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 100,679, a few cases more or fewer would not change the grade: D−.
Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Lyon 3e.
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: robbery without a weapon (6.6 per 1,000 against 1.1), theft from vehicles (19.1 per 1,000 against 4.3) and theft without violence (53.2 per 1,000 against 13.9).
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.
Of 54 towns its size, Lyon 3e is 47th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Tampon Réunion | 82,579 | 10.5 | 6.9 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 36 | Lyon 8e Rhône | 85,943 | 9.9 | 27 | D |
| … | |||||
| 44 | Perpignan Pyrénées-Orientales | 121,616 | 14.6 | 30 | D− |
| 45 | Aubervilliers Seine-Saint-Denis | 88,365 | 13 | 32.1 | D− |
| 46 | Cannes Alpes-Maritimes | 74,350 | 14.3 | 31.1 | D− |
| 47 | Lyon 3e Rhône | 100,679 | 11 | 34.9 | D− |
| 48 | Avignon Vaucluse | 92,188 | 13.4 | 34 | D− |
| 49 | Paris 10e Paris | 83,873 | 21.8 | 28 | 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 Lyon 3e with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Lyon 3e and up to four from Rhône.
Crime in Lyon 3e 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 35 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 58 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Lyon 3e, 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 | 293 | 252 | 252 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 546 | 538 | 632 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 206 | 240 | 271 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | 25 | 30 | 37 |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 502 | 480 | 420 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 444 | 377 | 318 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 1,677 | 1,550 | 1,921 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 945 | 822 | 1,086 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 4,575 | 4,685 | 5,354 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | 379 | 379 | 663 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 192 | 253 | 232 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 821 | 1,007 | 1,138 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 914 | 943 | 1,201 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | 125 | 140 | 158 |
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).
Lyon 3e and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyon 3e | 100,679 | 11 | 34.9 | D− |
| Lyon | 519,127 | —1 | —1 | —1 |
| Lyon 6e | 49,385 | 7.7 | 46.6 | D− |
| Villeurbanne | 163,684 | 9.5 | 28.6 | D |
| Lyon 8e | 85,943 | 9.9 | 27 | D |
| Lyon 7e | 88,326 | 10.4 | 56.4 | D− |
| Lyon 2e | 29,981 | 20 | 85.9 | D− |
1 Not graded: over 25% of the index would rest on département averages, where SSMSI doesn’t publish small counts.
2 of its 5 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Lyon 3e.
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 Lyon 3e
Is Lyon 3e safe?
It has more crime per resident than 98% of compared French towns: an average of 11 recorded violent incidents and 34.9 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, #101 of 107 in Rhône. Among the 54 French towns of 70,500 to 135,900 people, it is 47th from the lowest rate. With 88,850 jobs for 50,950 working residents, Lyon 3e 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 Lyon 3e?
The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 6% from 2023 to 2025: 46.1 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 49 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.
What is the most common recorded offense in Lyon 3e?
Theft without violence: 5,354 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then theft from vehicles (1,921), drug use (1,201) and fraud (1,138).
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.