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Safety in Albi · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Set against the 174 compared French towns closest in size, Albi records less crime than 72%

That puts it at C for safety, judged on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded in Albi from 2023 to 2025: #16 of 20 in Tarn. Of all the kinds of crime, drug dealing is where Albi departs most from towns its size: 2.1 per 1,000 against 1.3. Per resident, the graded crimes were down 8% from 2023 to 2025. Recorded violent crimes ran at 9.2 per 1,000 residents a year, and burglary, vehicle theft and damage at 17.0.

CViolence CBurglary, vehicle theft, damage #16of 20 in Tarn 50thof 174 towns its size

Violence

9.2

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

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

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

10.8

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 Albi

1.8jobs per working resident: Albi draws people from neighboring communes 50thof 174 towns its size, lowest rate first

Counted where it happens

32,500 jobs are based in Albi, for 18,150 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 174 French towns of 35,900 to 69,200 people with a Safety Grade, Albi is 50th 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 Albi’s grade

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (9.2 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 31% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (17 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 31% of compared French towns

A firm grade. Built on 4,035 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 51,290, 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

Criminal damage11.3

Drug use10.3

Theft without violence9.6

Fraud4.6

Burglary3.6

Other physical violence3.4

Family violence3

Drug dealing2.1

Sexual violence2

Theft from vehicles1.6

Theft of vehicle parts1.3

Vehicle theft0.7

Robbery without a weapon0.5

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

Well above the median of towns its size: drug dealing (2.1 per 1,000 against 1.3) and drug use (10.3 per 1,000 against 6.4). 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 174 towns its size, Albi is 50th from the least graded crime

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Saint-Joseph Réunion	39,207	9.4	4.7	A
…
47	Brive-la-Gaillarde Corrèze	47,095	10.9	15.1	C
48	Chalon-sur-Saône Saône-et-Loire	45,102	10.4	15.7	C
49	Caluire-et-Cuire Rhône	43,597	5.4	20.7	C
50	Albi Tarn	51,290	9.2	17	C
51	Mantes-la-Jolie Yvelines	43,526	10.9	15.4	C
52	Saint-Benoît Réunion	38,604	15.7	11	C
53	Thonon-les-Bains Haute-Savoie	37,928	9.5	17.5	C
…
65	Castres Tarn	42,505	11.4	17	C⁻
…
174	Marseille 1er Bouches-du-Rhône	37,599	27.4	70.7	D⁻

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

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

Year by year

Albi, year by year

Violence · per 1,000 residents

202310.3

20249

20258.4

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

202317.5

202416.3

202517.2

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	186	157	152
Other physical violence	Violence	216	202	175
Sexual violence	Violence	123	104	103
Armed robbery	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	163	161	185
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	49	55	34
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	111	98	83
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	573	523	582
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	405	459	493
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	26	40	25
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	27	35	67
Fraud	Not in the grade	267	331	235
Drug use	Not in the grade	529	611	529
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	71	97	106

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 Albi 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 17 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 Albi

Share of the index resting on Tarn 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 Tarn communes whose count is hidden. That average stands in for Albi’s hidden cells, never a zero; here it is 0.1% of the index, so the grade rests on Albi’s own figures.

Hidden for Albi	Years	Tarn average
Armed robbery	2023–2025	1.2 · 0.8 · 0.9

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

Neighbors

Albi and the towns around it

Lescure-d'AlbigeoisPuygouzonSaint-JuéryArthèsCagnac-les-MinesMarssac-sur-TarnAlbi

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Albi	51,290	9.2	17	C
Lescure-d'Albigeois	4,590	4.6	10.6	A⁻
Puygouzon	3,548	1.5	10.4	A
Saint-Juéry	6,564	5.1	11.2	A⁻
Arthès	2,528	—¹	—¹	—¹
Cagnac-les-Mines	2,621	—¹	—¹	—¹
Marssac-sur-Tarn	3,518	1.4	9.8	A⁺

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

Albi’s recorded rate in the graded categories is higher than each of its 4 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 Albi

Is Albi safe?

It has more crime per resident than 70% of compared French towns: an average of 9.2 recorded violent incidents and 17 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, #16 of 20 in Tarn. Among the 174 French towns of 35,900 to 69,200 people, it is 50th from the lowest rate. With 32,500 jobs for 18,150 working residents, Albi 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 Albi?

The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 8% from 2023 to 2025: 27.7 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 25.6 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.

What is the most common recorded offense in Albi?

Criminal damage: 582 in 2025. Then drug use (529), theft without violence (493) and fraud (235).

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.