Photo: Pierre Poschadel · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Fosses records more violent crime than 80% of compared French towns
Per resident, the graded rate barely moved from 2023 to 2025. All told, Fosses grades C for safety (#42 of 73 in Val-d'Oise): more crime per resident than 70% of compared French towns, on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded from 2023 to 2025. The typical town its size sees 1.3 cases of theft of vehicle parts per 1,000 residents; Fosses sees 2.8, or 30 in 2025. Behind the grade sit 10.9 violent crimes and 15.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 people a year.
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 Fosses
More violence than burglary, vehicle theft and damage
Fosses recorded an average of 10.9 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, fewer than in 20% of compared French towns, and 15.2 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, fewer than in 43%. Safety Grade ↓
Among towns its size
Among the 753 French towns of 7,400 to 14,300 people with a Safety Grade, Fosses is 459th 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.
The C for Fosses, and how it is built
A fairly firm grade. Built on 824 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 10,570, 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, 0.6% of the index here. What isn’t published ↓
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: theft of vehicle parts (2.8 per 1,000 against 1.3), drug use (6.6 per 1,000 against 4) and theft from vehicles (4.1 per 1,000 against 2.6). 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.
Crime in Fosses 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 15 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 11 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.
Of 753 towns its size, Fosses is 459th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand-Santi French Guiana | 9,668 | 4.9 | 1.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 174 | Le Plessis-Bouchard Val-d'Oise | 8,518 | 4.9 | 14.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 224 | Saint-Prix Val-d'Oise | 7,612 | 4.3 | 16.3 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 252 | Bessancourt Val-d'Oise | 8,869 | 4.9 | 16.5 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 329 | Beauchamp Val-d'Oise | 9,849 | 5.8 | 17.1 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 456 | Achicourt Pas-de-Calais | 7,873 | 9.8 | 16.3 | C |
| 457 | Livron-sur-Drôme Drôme | 9,329 | 8.7 | 17.4 | C |
| 458 | Aigues-Mortes Gard | 8,699 | 9.9 | 16.2 | C |
| 459 | Fosses Val-d'Oise | 10,570 | 10.9 | 15.2 | C |
| 460 | Sainte-Savine Aube | 10,289 | 7.7 | 18.4 | C |
| 461 | Gleizé Rhône | 8,035 | 6.5 | 19.7 | C |
| 462 | Voreppe Isère | 9,922 | 7.6 | 18.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 753 | Argelès-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 10,616 | 21.1 | 40.6 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Fosses with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Fosses and up to four from Val-d'Oise.
The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025
Violence · per 1,000 residents
Burglary, vehicle theft, damage · per 1,000 residents
| Kind | In the grade | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family violence | Violence | 55 | 50 | 46 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 37 | 42 | 47 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 30 | 16 | 19 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 20 | 26 | 18 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 26 | 27 | 27 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 29 | 33 | 43 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 93 | 60 | 80 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 71 | 52 | 51 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | n.p. | 29 | 30 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 51 | 65 | 68 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 44 | 36 | 70 |
| 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).
Fosses and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fosses | 10,570 | 10.9 | 15.2 | C |
| Marly-la-Ville | 6,022 | 7 | 13.5 | B− |
| Survilliers | 4,091 | 9.2 | 28.3 | D |
| La Chapelle-en-Serval Oise | 3,084 | 3.9 | 17.9 | B− |
| Orry-la-Ville Oise | 3,583 | 3.1 | 20.4 | C+ |
| Puiseux-en-France | 3,765 | 5.5 | 11.1 | B+ |
| Saint-Witz | 2,724 | 6.9 | 24.7 | C− |
4 of its 6 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Fosses.
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 Fosses
Is Fosses safe?
It has more crime per resident than 70% of compared French towns: an average of 10.9 recorded violent incidents and 15.2 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, #42 of 73 in Val-d'Oise. Among the 753 French towns of 7,400 to 14,300 people, it is 459th from the lowest rate.
Is crime going up in Fosses?
The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025: 27.6 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 26.6 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 Fosses?
Criminal damage: 80 in 2025. Then drug use (70), fraud (68) and theft without violence (51).
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.