Photo: Rémih · CC BY-SA 4.0Melun records more crime per resident than nine in ten compared French towns
Of all the kinds of crime, drug dealing is where Melun departs most from towns its size: 3 per 1,000 against 0.3. Recorded violent crimes ran at 14.5 per 1,000 residents a year, and burglary, vehicle theft and damage at 22.9. The Safety Grade comes out at D, drawn from offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Melun through 2023 to 2025: #98 of 104 in Seine-et-Marne. Per resident, the graded crimes were down 21% from 2023 to 2025.
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 Melun
Criminal damage fell sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 667 cases of criminal damage in Melun in 2023 and 406 in 2025. The grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
Among towns its size
Among the 183 French towns of 32,200 to 62,100 people with a Safety Grade, Melun is 143rd 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 Melun’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 5,162 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 45,995, a few cases more or fewer would not change the grade: D.
Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Melun.
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: drug dealing (3 per 1,000 against 0.3), armed robbery (0.4 per 1,000 against 0.1) and drug use (24.9 per 1,000 against 4).
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.
Melun, 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 | 294 | 292 | 264 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 255 | 252 | 236 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 96 | 141 | 111 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | 16 | 21 | 19 |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 175 | 132 | 159 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 86 | 104 | 93 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 325 | 412 | 217 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 667 | 389 | 406 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 648 | 589 | 645 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | 91 | 68 | 69 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 43 | 43 | 54 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 294 | 322 | 300 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 906 | 948 | 1,144 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | 131 | 157 | 137 |
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).
Of 183 towns its size, Melun is 143rd from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Joseph Réunion | 39,207 | 9.4 | 4.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 34 | Chelles Seine-et-Marne | 54,620 | 7.8 | 15.8 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 46 | Pontault-Combault Seine-et-Marne | 39,096 | 6.7 | 18.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 48 | Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 56,905 | 11.9 | 13.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 140 | Arles Bouches-du-Rhône | 51,811 | 10.7 | 26.3 | D |
| 141 | Saint-Martin-d'Hères Isère | 37,695 | 8.4 | 28.7 | D |
| 142 | Auxerre Yonne | 35,097 | 13.3 | 23.9 | D |
| 143 | Melun Seine-et-Marne | 45,995 | 14.5 | 22.9 | D |
| 144 | Villefranche-sur-Saône Rhône | 36,172 | 12.9 | 25 | D |
| 145 | Corbeil-Essonnes Essonne | 54,471 | 15.6 | 22.7 | D |
| 146 | Marseille 10e Bouches-du-Rhône | 60,317 | 9.6 | 29.1 | D |
| … | |||||
| 183 | Marseille 1er Bouches-du-Rhône | 37,599 | 27.4 | 70.7 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Melun with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Melun and up to four from Seine-et-Marne.
Crime in Melun 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 23 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 20 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Melun and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melun | 45,995 | 14.5 | 22.9 | D |
| Rubelles | 3,537 | 6.8 | 10.1 | B+ |
| Le Mée-sur-Seine | 19,527 | 10.3 | 15.2 | C |
| Vaux-le-Pénil | 11,474 | 6.3 | 13.6 | B |
| La Rochette | 3,932 | 3.9 | 16.3 | B |
| Dammarie-les-Lys | 23,559 | 9.9 | 17.5 | C |
| Vert-Saint-Denis | 9,291 | 7.8 | 16.3 | C+ |
Melun’s recorded rate in the graded categories is higher than each of its 6 graded neighbors’.
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 Melun
Is Melun safe?
It has more crime per resident than 93% of compared French towns: an average of 14.5 recorded violent incidents and 22.9 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, #98 of 104 in Seine-et-Marne. Among the 183 French towns of 32,200 to 62,100 people, it is 143rd from the lowest rate. With 26,400 jobs for 19,450 working residents, Melun 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 Melun?
The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 21% from 2023 to 2025: 41.6 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 32.7 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.
What is the most common recorded offense in Melun?
Drug use: 1,144 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then theft without violence (645), criminal damage (406) and fraud (300).
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.