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Safety in Gaillac · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Less crime per resident is recorded in Gaillac than in 87% of the 467 compared French towns closest in size

The graded rate fell 7% from 2023 to 2025. It has less burglary, vehicle theft and damage than 67% of compared French towns, but less violent crime than only 40%. Overall, it grades B for safety (#12 of 20 in Tarn). Violence and property crime split as 8.1 violent crimes and 11.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 residents a year.

C⁺Violence B⁺Burglary, vehicle theft, damage #12of 20 in Tarn 61stof 467 towns its size

Violence

8.1

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

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

11.6

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

Theft and fraud

10.9

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

Drug use

3.4

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 Gaillac

×2.2burglary, 2023 to 2025 40% · 67%of compared French towns have more violence · more burglary, vehicle theft and damage 61stof 467 towns its size, lowest rate first

Burglary rose sharply

Police and gendarmerie recorded 19 cases of burglary in Gaillac in 2023 and 41 in 2025. Small counts swing from year to year; the grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓

More violence than burglary, vehicle theft and damage

Gaillac recorded an average of 8.1 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, fewer than in 40% of compared French towns, and 11.6 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, fewer than in 67%. Safety Grade ↓

Among towns its size

Among the 467 French towns of 11,300 to 21,800 people with a Safety Grade, Gaillac is 61st 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 sits behind Gaillac’s B

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (8.1 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 40% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (11.6 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 67% of compared French towns

B⁻B

A fairly firm grade. Built on 952 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 16,162, a few cases more or fewer would move it between B− and B.

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, 0.3% 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 damage6.4

Fraud5.7

Theft without violence5.1

Drug use3.5

Family violence3.1

Burglary2.5

Other physical violence2.4

Sexual violence1.7

Theft from vehicles1.1

Vehicle theft0.8

Theft of vehicle parts0.8

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

Not published for 2025: armed robbery, 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.

Towns its size

Of 467 towns its size, Gaillac is 61st from the least graded crime

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	La Hague Manche	11,484	3.8	4.4	A⁺
…
58	Les Clayes-sous-Bois Yvelines	16,804	7.2	12.4	B
59	Saint-Joseph Martinique	16,258	11.2	8.4	B
60	La Queue-en-Brie Val-de-Marne	12,241	7.9	11.8	B
61	Gaillac Tarn	16,162	8.1	11.6	B
62	Vaires-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne	13,931	5.6	14.2	B
63	Saint-Pierre-du-Perray Essonne	11,993	6.1	13.7	B
64	Mende Lozère	12,464	11.7	8.2	B
…
277	Graulhet Tarn	13,129	13.4	14.9	C⁻
…
467	Paris 1er Paris	15,114	45.5	67.1	D⁻

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

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

Year by year

Gaillac, year by year

Violence · per 1,000 residents

20237.6

20249.5

20257.2

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

202311.8

202412.2

202510.8

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	42	45	50
Other physical violence	Violence	45	62	38
Sexual violence	Violence	35	45	28
Armed robbery	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	19	44	41
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	10	14	13
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	26	18	17
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	136	121	103
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	101	91	83
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	n.p.	15	13
Fraud	Not in the grade	70	90	92
Drug use	Not in the grade	42	65	57
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).

For every 1,000 residents

Crime in Gaillac 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 12 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 11 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

What isn’t published

1 kind of crime isn’t published for Gaillac

Share of the index resting on Tarn averages0.3% · 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 Gaillac’s hidden cells, never a zero; here it is 0.3% of the index, so the grade rests on Gaillac’s own figures.

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

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

Neighbors

Gaillac and the towns around it

Lisle-sur-TarnMarssac-sur-TarnRabastensCoufouleuxGraulhetAlbiGaillac

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Gaillac	16,162	8.1	11.6	B
Lisle-sur-Tarn	4,939	4.9	6	A⁺
Marssac-sur-Tarn	3,518	1.4	9.8	A⁺
Rabastens	5,867	6.7	10.3	B⁺
Coufouleux	3,057	—¹	—¹	—¹
Graulhet	13,129	13.4	14.9	C⁻
Albi	51,290	9.2	17	C

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

3 of its 5 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Gaillac.

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 Gaillac

Is Gaillac safe?

It has less crime per resident than 58% of compared French towns: an average of 8.1 recorded violent incidents and 11.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. It grades B for safety, #12 of 20 in Tarn. Among the 467 French towns of 11,300 to 21,800 people, it is 61st from the lowest rate.

Is crime going up in Gaillac?

The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 7% from 2023 to 2025: 19.4 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 18 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 Gaillac?

Criminal damage: 103 in 2025. Then fraud (92), theft without violence (83) and drug use (57).

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.