Photo: Christophe Godart · CC BY-SA 4.0Cergy records drug dealing at 2.4 times the rate of a typical town its size
The rate the grade counts dropped 16% from 2023 to 2025. On top of that, of the 104 compared French towns closest to it in size, it ranks 29th from the least crime. Across all the graded crimes, Cergy lands on C (#44 of 73 in Val-d'Oise): more crime per resident than 71% of compared French towns, on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded from 2023 to 2025. Each year brought 10.1 violent crimes and 16.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage for every 1,000 residents.
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 Cergy
Burglary fell sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 251 cases of burglary in Cergy in 2023 and 137 in 2025. The grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
Among towns its size
Among the 104 French towns of 49,600 to 95,700 people with a Safety Grade, Cergy is 29th 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 Cergy’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 5,621 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 70,906, a few cases more or fewer would move it between C and C.
Hidden counts: every graded count is published for Cergy.
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 1.3), theft of vehicle parts (2.9 per 1,000 against 1.3) and armed robbery (0.2 per 1,000 against 0.1).
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.
Cergy, 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 | 300 | 287 | 313 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 286 | 251 | 236 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 137 | 132 | 154 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | 20 | 26 | 16 |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 251 | 240 | 137 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 167 | 167 | 203 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 320 | 208 | 234 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 614 | 452 | 470 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 768 | 776 | 915 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | 163 | 132 | 94 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 78 | 115 | 206 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 391 | 383 | 375 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 485 | 559 | 689 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | 118 | 129 | 214 |
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).
Cergy against towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Tampon Réunion | 82,579 | 10.5 | 6.9 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Champigny-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 78,072 | 9.5 | 16 | C |
| 27 | Saint-Louis Réunion | 54,941 | 14.8 | 10.8 | C |
| 28 | Albi Tarn | 51,290 | 9.2 | 17 | C |
| 29 | Cergy Val-d'Oise | 70,906 | 10.1 | 16.3 | C |
| 30 | Créteil Val-de-Marne | 93,397 | 10.2 | 16.3 | C |
| 31 | Massy Essonne | 51,729 | 8.9 | 18.1 | C |
| 32 | Fontenay-sous-Bois Val-de-Marne | 53,757 | 7.4 | 19.6 | C |
| … | |||||
| 59 | Sarcelles Val-d'Oise | 59,173 | 12.6 | 19.8 | D |
| … | |||||
| 104 | Lyon 7e Rhône | 88,326 | 10.4 | 56.4 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Cergy with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Cergy and up to four from Val-d'Oise.
Crime in Cergy 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 16 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 17 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Cergy and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cergy | 70,906 | 10.1 | 16.3 | C |
| Vauréal | 16,079 | 5.8 | 13 | B |
| Osny | 17,954 | 8.6 | 21.3 | C− |
| Courdimanche | 7,311 | 4.4 | 15.1 | B |
| Jouy-le-Moutier | 17,854 | 5.9 | 12.2 | B+ |
| Pontoise | 31,970 | 8.8 | 17.5 | C |
| Menucourt | 6,184 | 6.3 | 9.3 | A− |
5 of its 6 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Cergy.
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 Cergy
Is Cergy safe?
It has more crime per resident than 71% of compared French towns: an average of 10.1 recorded violent incidents and 16.3 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, #44 of 73 in Val-d'Oise. Among the 104 French towns of 49,600 to 95,700 people, it is 29th from the lowest rate. With 36,150 jobs for 30,000 working residents, Cergy 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 Cergy?
The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 16% from 2023 to 2025: 29.5 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 24.9 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.
What is the most common recorded offense in Cergy?
Theft without violence: 915 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then drug use (689), criminal damage (470) and fraud (375).
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.