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Safety in Chelles · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Less crime per resident is recorded in Chelles than in 85% of the 151 compared French towns closest in size

Police and gendarmerie recorded 107 cases of theft of vehicle parts in Chelles in 2025, a rate of 2 per 1,000 against a typical 1.3. The local count comes to 7.8 violent crimes and 15.8 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 people each year. The graded rate fell 14% from 2023 to 2025.

C⁺Violence C⁺Burglary, vehicle theft, damage #66of 104 in Seine-et-Marne 23rdof 151 towns its size

Violence

7.8

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

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

15.8

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

Theft and fraud

14.2

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

Drug use

4.1

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 Chelles

÷1.5vehicle theft, 2023 to 2025 23rdof 151 towns its size, lowest rate first

Vehicle theft fell sharply

Police and gendarmerie recorded 159 cases of vehicle theft in Chelles in 2023 and 103 in 2025. The grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓

Among towns its size

Among the 151 French towns of 38,200 to 73,700 people with a Safety Grade, Chelles is 23rd 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

The grade: C+ for Chelles

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (7.8 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 42% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (15.8 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 38% of compared French towns

C⁺C⁺

A firm grade. Built on 3,873 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 54,620, a few cases more or fewer would move it between C+ and C+.

Hidden counts: for armed robbery, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 0.1% of the index here. What isn’t published ↓

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

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Theft without violence7.3

Fraud6.3

Criminal damage6.2

Other physical violence3.8

Drug use3.5

Family violence3.4

Burglary3.1

Theft from vehicles2.8

Theft of vehicle parts2

Vehicle theft1.9

Sexual violence1.3

Robbery without a weapon0.8

Drug dealing0.5

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

Well above the median of towns its size: theft of vehicle parts (2 per 1,000 against 1.3). Not published for 2025: armed robbery.

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.

Towns its size

Of 151 towns its size, Chelles is 23rd from the least graded crime

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Saint-Joseph Réunion	39,207	9.4	4.7	A
…
20	Garges-lès-Gonesse Val-d'Oise	41,791	10.1	13.1	C⁺
21	Draguignan Var	40,826	9.3	14	C⁺
22	Alfortville Val-de-Marne	45,531	10	13.5	C⁺
23	Chelles Seine-et-Marne	54,620	7.8	15.8	C⁺
24	Suresnes Hauts-de-Seine	48,956	7.4	16.2	C⁺
25	Les Sables-d'Olonne Vendée	49,603	6.4	17.6	C⁺
26	Clichy Hauts-de-Seine	64,410	8.4	16	C⁺
…
32	Pontault-Combault Seine-et-Marne	39,096	6.7	18.7	C
…
34	Meaux Seine-et-Marne	56,905	11.9	13.7	C
…
115	Melun Seine-et-Marne	45,995	14.5	22.9	D
…
151	Marseille 6e Bouches-du-Rhône	38,476	12.3	49.8	D⁻

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

Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Chelles and up to four from Seine-et-Marne.

Year by year

Chelles, year by year

Violence · per 1,000 residents

20237.4

20247.6

20258.6

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

202318.8

202414.7

202513.9

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	179	178	188
Other physical violence	Violence	152	147	209
Sexual violence	Violence	67	86	70
Armed robbery	Violence	7	n.p.	n.p.
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	229	164	169
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	159	128	103
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	210	151	151
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	429	360	337
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	432	443	400
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	47	30	42
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	118	152	107
Fraud	Not in the grade	406	293	346
Drug use	Not in the grade	238	244	192
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	27	25	27

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).

For every 1,000 residents

Crime in Chelles per 1,000 residents

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.

What isn’t published

1 kind of crime isn’t published for Chelles

Share of the index resting on Seine-et-Marne averages0.1% · 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 Seine-et-Marne communes whose count is hidden. That average stands in for Chelles’ hidden cells, never a zero; here it is 0.1% of the index, so the grade rests on Chelles’ own figures.

Hidden for Chelles	Years	Seine-et-Marne average
Armed robbery	2024, 2025	1.5 · 1.1

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

Neighbors

Chelles and the towns around it

Brou-sur-ChantereineGournay-sur-MarneMontfermeilVaires-sur-MarneChamps-sur-MarneCourtryChelles

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Chelles	54,620	7.8	15.8	C⁺
Brou-sur-Chantereine	5,196	6.4	19.7	C
Gournay-sur-Marne Seine-Saint-Denis	7,320	6.2	19.1	C
Montfermeil Seine-Saint-Denis	28,703	9.8	16.4	C
Vaires-sur-Marne	13,931	5.6	14.2	B
Champs-sur-Marne	27,451	6.2	15.3	B⁻
Courtry	7,330	5.2	11.7	B⁺

3 of its 6 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Chelles.

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.

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Questions about safety in Chelles

Is Chelles safe?

It has more crime per resident than 60% of compared French towns: an average of 7.8 recorded violent incidents and 15.8 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, #66 of 104 in Seine-et-Marne. Among the 151 French towns of 38,200 to 73,700 people, it is 23rd from the lowest rate.

Is crime going up in Chelles?

The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 14% from 2023 to 2025: 26.2 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 22.5 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.

What is the most common recorded offense in Chelles?

Theft without violence: 400 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then fraud (346), criminal damage (337) and other physical violence (209).

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.