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Safety in Draguignan · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Draguignan stands out for drug dealing: 4.1 times the rate of a typical town its size

Ranked from the least crime, the 212 compared French towns closest in size put it 38th. The crimes the grade counts held steady per resident from 2023 to 2025. Its Safety Grade, C+ (#36 of 73 in Var), rests on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of compared French towns. Police counts work out at 9.3 violent crimes and 14.0 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 residents annually.

CViolence B⁻Burglary, vehicle theft, damage #36of 73 in Var 38thof 212 towns its size

Violence

9.3

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

12.9

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

Drug use

5.5

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 Draguignan

38thof 212 towns its size, lowest rate first

Among towns its size

Among the 212 French towns of 28,600 to 55,100 people with a Safety Grade, Draguignan is 38th 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

Draguignan: C+ for safety, and why

Violence: physical, sexual, armed robbery (9.3 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 31% of compared French towns

Burglary, vehicle theft and damage (14 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 50% of compared French towns

C⁺B⁻

A fairly firm grade. Built on 2,845 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 40,826, a few cases more or fewer would move it between C+ 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, 0.1% 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 damage9.2

Theft without violence7.7

Fraud6.2

Drug use4.9

Family violence3.7

Other physical violence3.3

Burglary2.5

Sexual violence2

Theft from vehicles1.5

Vehicle theft1.3

Drug dealing1.1

Theft of vehicle parts0.7

Robbery without a weapon0.2

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

Well above the median of towns its size: drug dealing (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.3). 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 10,000 to 50,000.

Towns its size

Draguignan is 38th of 212 French towns of 28,600 to 55,100 people

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Saint-Joseph Réunion	39,207	9.4	4.7	A
…
35	Ermont Val-d'Oise	29,489	7.9	15.1	C⁺
36	Joué-lès-Tours Indre-et-Loire	38,423	7.5	15.8	C⁺
37	Garges-lès-Gonesse Val-d'Oise	41,791	10.1	13.1	C⁺
38	Draguignan Var	40,826	9.3	14	C⁺
39	Lyon 4e Rhône	34,752	5.8	17.6	C⁺
40	Alfortville Val-de-Marne	45,531	10	13.5	C⁺
41	Nogent-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne	32,455	8	15.5	C⁺
…
58	Six-Fours-les-Plages Var	37,109	6.5	18.9	C
…
94	Saint-Raphaël Var	37,113	6.9	21.6	C⁻
…
212	Lyon 2e Rhône	29,981	20	85.9	D⁻

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

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

For every 1,000 residents

Crime in Draguignan 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 14 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 13 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

Year by year

The graded rate, 2023 to 2025: about level

Violence · per 1,000 residents

20239.6

20249.3

20259

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

202313.3

202414

202514.5

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	148	163	150
Other physical violence	Violence	178	145	135
Sexual violence	Violence	66	70	81
Armed robbery	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	81	94	104
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	64	49	54
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	69	60	61
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	329	370	374
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	312	255	314
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	15	8	8
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	18	21	28
Fraud	Not in the grade	222	222	253
Drug use	Not in the grade	227	243	201
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	45	36	45

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).

What isn’t published

1 kind of crime isn’t published for Draguignan

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

Hidden for Draguignan	Years	Var average
Armed robbery	2023–2025	1.2 · 1.2 · 1.2

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

Neighbors

Draguignan and the towns around it

Trans-en-ProvenceFiganièresFlayoscLa MotteLes ArcsLorguesDraguignan

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Draguignan	40,826	9.3	14	C⁺
Trans-en-Provence	6,905	7.5	15.3	C⁺
Figanières	2,762	—¹	—¹	—¹
Flayosc	4,673	5.7	8.8	A⁻
La Motte	3,071	4.9	12.3	B⁺
Les Arcs	8,109	10	19.4	C⁻
Lorgues	9,849	7.2	13.1	B

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

4 of its 5 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Draguignan.

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 Draguignan

Is Draguignan safe?

It has more crime per resident than 59% of compared French towns: an average of 9.3 recorded violent incidents and 14 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, #36 of 73 in Var. Among the 212 French towns of 28,600 to 55,100 people, it is 38th from the lowest rate.

Is crime going up in Draguignan?

The recorded rate in the graded categories held steady from 2023 to 2025: 22.9 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 23.5 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.

What is the most common recorded offense in Draguignan?

Criminal damage: 374 in 2025. Then theft without violence (314), fraud (253) and drug use (201).

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.