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Safety in Hyères · SSMSI, 2023–2025

Hyères has more burglary, vehicle theft and damage per resident than 89% of compared French towns

Police and gendarmerie recorded 129 cases of drug dealing in Hyères in 2025, a rate of 2.3 per 1,000 against a typical 1.3. It grades C− for safety on offenses police and gendarmerie recorded here from 2023 to 2025: #58 of 73 in Var. Per resident, the graded crimes were up 22% from 2023 to 2025. The local count comes to 9.3 violent crimes and 22.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle theft and damage per 1,000 people each year.

CViolence DBurglary, vehicle theft, damage #58of 73 in Var 77thof 146 towns its size

Violence

9.3

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

Burglary, vehicle theft, damage

22.7

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

Theft and fraud

20.6

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

Drug use

7.1

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 Hyères

77thof 146 towns its size, lowest rate first

Among towns its size

Among the 146 French towns of 39,100 to 75,400 people with a Safety Grade, Hyères is 77th 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 Hyères’s C−

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 (22.7 per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average)Lower rate than in 11% of compared French towns

DC⁻

A fairly firm grade. Built on 5,356 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 55,858, a few cases more or fewer would move it between D 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.

Year by year

Hyères, year by year

Violence · per 1,000 residents

20238.5

202410.3

20259.2

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

202320.2

202421.8

202525.9

Kind	In the grade	2023	2024	2025
Family violence	Violence	204	246	239
Other physical violence	Violence	191	206	189
Sexual violence	Violence	77	120	86
Armed robbery	Violence	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.
Burglary	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	196	207	223
Vehicle theft	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	102	100	135
Theft from vehicles	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	239	300	322
Criminal damage	Burglary, vehicle theft, damage	594	613	767
Theft without violence	Not in the grade	683	756	756
Robbery without a weapon	Not in the grade	51	29	51
Theft of vehicle parts	Not in the grade	83	41	87
Fraud	Not in the grade	394	381	489
Drug use	Not in the grade	498	337	361
Drug dealing	Not in the grade	94	109	129

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).

By type

What police and gendarmerie recorded most in 2025

Criminal damage13.7

Theft without violence13.5

Fraud8.8

Drug use6.5

Theft from vehicles5.8

Family violence4.3

Burglary4

Other physical violence3.4

Vehicle theft2.4

Drug dealing2.3

Theft of vehicle parts1.6

Sexual violence1.5

Robbery without a weapon0.9

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

Well above the median of towns its size: drug dealing (2.3 per 1,000 against 1.3). 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 50,000 or more.

For every 1,000 residents

Crime in Hyères 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 23 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, and 21 thefts without violence and frauds: a year, 2023–2025 average.

Towns its size

Hyères places 77th of 146 towns its size, the least crime first

#	Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
1	Saint-Joseph Réunion	39,207	9.4	4.7	A
…
20	Draguignan Var	40,826	9.3	14	C⁺
…
48	La Seyne-sur-Mer Var	63,732	9.6	18.1	C
…
54	Fréjus Var	59,719	9.2	19.7	C⁻
…
74	Bourges Cher	64,186	9.1	22.4	C⁻
75	Villepinte Seine-Saint-Denis	41,470	10.7	20.7	C⁻
76	Alès Gard	46,125	10.6	20.8	C⁻
77	Hyères Var	55,858	9.3	22.7	C⁻
78	Bourg-en-Bresse Ain	42,372	11.7	20.4	D
79	Marseille 12e Bouches-du-Rhône	64,399	5.5	26.8	D
80	Sète Hérault	45,337	10.5	21.7	D
…
146	Marseille 3e Bouches-du-Rhône	58,029	15.1	41	D⁻

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

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

What isn’t published

1 kind of crime isn’t published for Hyères

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 Hyères’ hidden cells, never a zero; here it is 0.1% of the index, so the grade rests on Hyères’ own figures.

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

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

Neighbors

Hyères and the towns around it

CarqueiranneLa CrauLe PradetLa Londe-les-MauresLa FarlèdeLa GardeHyères

ABCDNot graded

Town	People	Violence	Homes, vehicles	Safety
Hyères	55,858	9.3	22.7	C⁻
Carqueiranne	9,408	6	22.4	C⁻
La Crau	19,556	5.2	11.4	B⁺
Le Pradet	10,933	6	15.6	B⁻
La Londe-les-Maures	10,584	7.2	16.5	C⁺
La Farlède	10,014	11.7	15.3	C
La Garde	26,476	7.7	18.6	C

Hyères’ recorded rate in the graded categories is higher than each of its 6 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.

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Questions about safety in Hyères

Is Hyères safe?

It has more crime per resident than 85% of compared French towns: an average of 9.3 recorded violent incidents and 22.7 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, #58 of 73 in Var. Among the 146 French towns of 39,100 to 75,400 people, it is 77th from the lowest rate. With 25,000 jobs for 20,550 working residents, Hyères 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 Hyères?

The recorded rate in the graded categories rose 22% from 2023 to 2025: 28.7 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 35.1 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.

What is the most common recorded offense in Hyères?

Criminal damage: 767 in 2025. Then theft without violence (756), fraud (489) and drug use (361).

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.