Photo: Dervieux sébastien · CC BY 3.0Lyon 7e records more crime per resident than almost every compared French town
It has more violent crime than 77% of compared French towns, and more burglary, vehicle theft and damage than 100%. Add to that, the grade is D−, built on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Lyon 7e from 2023 to 2025: #105 of 107 in Rhône. The graded rate rose 31% from 2023 to 2025. Police counts work out at 10.4 violent crimes and 56.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
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 7e
Theft from vehicles rose sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 2,636 cases of theft from vehicles in Lyon 7e in 2023 and 4,111 in 2025. The grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
Ranks better on violence than on burglary, vehicle theft and damage
Lyon 7e recorded an average of 10.4 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, fewer than in 23% of compared French towns, and 56.4 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, fewer than in 0%. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the SSMSI and INSEE data on this page. Figures are offenses police and gendarmerie recorded, not convictions.
Inside Lyon 7e’s D− for safety
A firm grade. Built on 17,685 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 88,326, a few cases more or fewer would not change the grade: D−.
Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Lyon 7e.
Per resident, against the 4,295 compared French towns with a Safety Grade.
Lyon 7e, 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 | 224 | 254 | 253 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 458 | 412 | 485 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 182 | 170 | 189 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | 37 | 38 | 44 |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 387 | 397 | 347 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 333 | 279 | 236 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 2,636 | 3,320 | 4,111 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 930 | 845 | 1,118 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 3,448 | 3,033 | 3,465 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | 405 | 444 | 779 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 388 | 387 | 360 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 679 | 769 | 869 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 808 | 840 | 1,046 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | 192 | 188 | 210 |
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).
What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025
Well above the median of towns its size: theft from vehicles (46.5 per 1,000 against 4.3), robbery without a weapon (8.8 per 1,000 against 1.1) and armed robbery (0.5 per 1,000 against 0.1).
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.
Lyon 7e is 71st of 71 French towns of 61,800 to 119,200 people
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Tampon Réunion | 82,579 | 10.5 | 6.9 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 48 | Lyon 8e Rhône | 85,943 | 9.9 | 27 | D |
| … | |||||
| 62 | Lyon 3e Rhône | 100,679 | 11 | 34.9 | D− |
| … | |||||
| 68 | Vénissieux Rhône | 65,502 | 13.4 | 39.9 | D− |
| 69 | Marseille 15e Bouches-du-Rhône | 79,161 | 14.7 | 38.6 | D− |
| 70 | Rouen Seine-Maritime | 117,662 | 16.2 | 39.2 | D− |
| 71 | Lyon 7e Rhône | 88,326 | 10.4 | 56.4 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Lyon 7e 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 7e and up to four from Rhône.
Crime in Lyon 7e 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 56 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 46 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Lyon 7e and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyon 7e | 88,326 | 10.4 | 56.4 | D− |
| Lyon 2e | 29,981 | 20 | 85.9 | D− |
| Lyon | 519,127 | —1 | —1 | —1 |
| Lyon 3e | 100,679 | 11 | 34.9 | D− |
| Lyon 8e | 85,943 | 9.9 | 27 | D |
| La Mulatière | 6,534 | 6.5 | 32.1 | D |
| Lyon 6e | 49,385 | 7.7 | 46.6 | D− |
1 Not graded: over 25% of the index would rest on département averages, where SSMSI doesn’t publish small counts.
4 of its 5 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Lyon 7e.
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 7e
Is Lyon 7e safe?
It has more crime per resident than 100% of compared French towns: an average of 10.4 recorded violent incidents and 56.4 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, #105 of 107 in Rhône. With 62,650 jobs for 45,150 working residents, Lyon 7e 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 7e?
The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 31% from 2023 to 2025: 58.7 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 76.8 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 7e?
Theft from vehicles: 4,111 in 2025. Then theft without violence (3,465), criminal damage (1,118) and drug use (1,046).
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.