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Safety in Tarare · SSMSI, 2023–2025

More violent crime is recorded per resident in Tarare than in 81% of compared French towns

All told, Tarare grades C for safety (#73 of 107 in Rhône): more crime per resident than 73% of compared French towns, on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded from 2023 to 2025. The local count comes to 11.3 violent crimes and 16.1 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 people each year. Ranked from the least crime, the 734 compared French towns closest in size put it 469th.

C⁻Violence C⁺Burglary, vehicle theft, damage #73of 107 in Rhône 469thof 734 towns its size

Violence

11.3

recorded per 1,000 residents a year · in the grade

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

16.1

burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles, criminal damage · in the grade

Theft and fraud

13.6

theft without violence, fraud, per 1,000 residents a year · Not in the grade

Drug use

3.1

recorded offenses per 1,000 residents a year · Not in the grade

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Tarare

÷2.9burglary, 2023 to 2025 469thof 734 towns its size, lowest rate first

Burglary fell sharply

Police and gendarmerie recorded 32 cases of burglary in Tarare in 2023 and 11 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓

Among towns its size

Among the 734 French towns of 7,600 to 14,700 people with a Safety Grade, Tarare is 469th 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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Tarare’s grade

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (11.3 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 19% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (16.1 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 36% of compared French towns

C⁻C

A fairly firm grade. Built on 895 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 10,893, a few cases more or fewer would move it between C− and C.

Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Tarare.

Per resident, against the 4,295 compared French towns with a Safety Grade.

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Criminal damage9.8

Fraud7.2

Theft without violence6

Family violence5

Sexual violence4.6

Other physical violence4.2

Drug use4.1

Theft from vehicles2.2

Vehicle theft1.6

Burglary1

Theft of vehicle parts0.8

ViolenceBurglary, vehicle theft, damageNot in the gradeMedian of towns its size

Well above the median of towns its size: sexual violence (4.6 per 1,000 against 1.8). None recorded in 2025: armed robbery. Not published for 2025: robbery without a weapon and drug dealing.

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 10,000 to 50,000.

For every 1,000 residents

About 11 in 1,000: recorded violent incidents a year

ViolenceBurglary, vehicle theft, damageTheft and fraud (not in the grade)

recorded violent incidents

burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage

thefts without violence and frauds

of the three together

Each dot is one resident’s share: offenses are counted, not victims, and one person can be the victim of several.

And 16 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 14 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

Towns its size

Tarare is 469th of 734 French towns of 7,600 to 14,700 people

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Grand-Santi French Guiana	9,668	4.9	1.6	A⁺
…
206	Craponne Rhône	12,084	6.4	14.2	B⁻
…
305	Mions Rhône	13,843	6.9	15.8	C⁺
…
330	Genas Rhône	13,421	5.4	17.9	C⁺
…
362	Belleville-en-Beaujolais Rhône	14,016	10	14.4	C⁺
…
466	Morangis Essonne	14,129	8.3	19	C
467	Brignais Rhône	12,503	7.9	19.5	C
468	Barentin Seine-Maritime	12,022	11.7	15.7	C
469	Tarare Rhône	10,893	11.3	16.1	C
470	Saint-Amand-Montrond Cher	9,899	12.3	15.1	C
471	Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire	9,720	9	18.4	C
472	Maxéville Meurthe-et-Moselle	10,090	11.3	16.2	C
…
734	Argelès-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales	10,616	21.1	40.6	D⁻

Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Tarare with every compared French town, not just towns its size.

Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Tarare and up to four from Rhône.

Year by year

From 2023 to 2025, the graded categories held about level

Violence · per 1,000 residents

20239.2

202410.9

202513.8

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage · per 1,000 residents

202318.9

202414.8

202514.6

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	45	56	54
Other physical violence	Violence	38	35	46
Sexual violence	Violence	17	28	50
Armed robbery	Violence	0	0	0
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	32	24	11
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	31	16	17
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	44	28	24
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	99	93	107
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	67	59	65
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	11	8	9
Fraud	Not in the grade	85	89	78
Drug use	Not in the grade	32	23	45
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.

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

Tarare and the towns around it

Vindry-sur-TurdineVal d'OingtAmplepuisPanissièresL'ArbresleSain-BelTarare

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Tarare	10,893	11.3	16.1	C
Vindry-sur-Turdine	5,305	4.2	12.4	B⁺
Val d'Oingt	4,117	4	10.9	A⁻
Amplepuis	4,876	9.6	15.5	C
Panissières Loire	2,911	—¹	—¹	—¹
L'Arbresle	6,537	7.7	16.8	C⁺
Sain-Bel	2,566	4.5	14.6	B

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

Tarare’s recorded rate in the graded categories is higher than each of its 5 graded neighbors’.

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 Tarare

Is Tarare safe?

It has more crime per resident than 73% of compared French towns: an average of 11.3 recorded violent incidents and 16.1 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. It grades C for safety, #73 of 107 in Rhône. Among the 734 French towns of 7,600 to 14,700 people, it is 469th from the lowest rate. With 5,750 jobs for 4,150 working residents, Tarare 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 Tarare?

The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025: 28.1 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 28.4 in 2025. In a town this size a few dozen cases move the figure, so the grade uses the three-year average.

What is the most common recorded offense in Tarare?

Criminal damage: 107 in 2025. Then fraud (78), theft without violence (65) and family violence (54).

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 October 30, 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.