Photo: Chevalier Georges · CC BY-SA 4.0Trappes stands out for drug use: 4.1 times the rate of a typical town its size
Of all the kinds of crime, drug use is where Trappes departs most from towns its size: 16.6 per 1,000 against 4. Its letter overall is C (#77 of 91 in Yvelines): more crime per resident than 66% of compared French towns, from offenses police and gendarmerie recorded through 2023 to 2025. Per resident, the graded crimes were down 17% from 2023 to 2025.
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 Trappes
Theft from vehicles fell sharply
Police and gendarmerie recorded 90 cases of theft from vehicles in Trappes in 2023 and 51 in 2025. The grade averages the three years. Year by year ↓
More violence than burglary, vehicle theft and damage
Trappes recorded an average of 11 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, fewer than in 20% of compared French towns, and 14.2 burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage, fewer than in 48%. Safety Grade ↓
Among towns its size
Among the 235 French towns of 24,300 to 46,800 people with a Safety Grade, Trappes is 68th 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.
Trappes: C for safety, and why
A fairly firm grade. Built on 2,621 offenses recorded in the graded categories over three years; with a town of 34,689, 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, 0.1% 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: drug use (16.6 per 1,000 against 4), drug dealing (0.9 per 1,000 against 0.3) and theft of vehicle parts (4.1 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 10,000 to 50,000.
Trappes, 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 | 184 | 195 | 168 |
| Other physical violence | Violence | 146 | 130 | 134 |
| Sexual violence | Violence | 58 | 57 | 68 |
| Armed robbery | Violence | n.p. | n.p. | n.p. |
| Burglary | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 38 | 33 | 28 |
| Vehicle theft | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 60 | 71 | 61 |
| Theft from vehicles | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 90 | 124 | 51 |
| Criminal damage | Burglary, vehicle theft, damage | 347 | 319 | 259 |
| Theft without violence | Not in the grade | 284 | 220 | 261 |
| Robbery without a weapon | Not in the grade | 21 | 26 | 21 |
| Theft of vehicle parts | Not in the grade | 226 | 252 | 141 |
| Fraud | Not in the grade | 184 | 181 | 195 |
| Drug use | Not in the grade | 444 | 532 | 575 |
| Drug dealing | Not in the grade | 56 | 37 | 31 |
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).
Trappes is 68th of 235 French towns of 24,300 to 46,800 people
| # | Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sèvremoine Maine-et-Loire | 25,797 | 5.6 | 8.4 | A |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt Yvelines | 30,689 | 5.4 | 11.9 | B+ |
| 7 | Chatou Yvelines | 30,598 | 4.6 | 12.9 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Rambouillet Yvelines | 27,724 | 7.4 | 10.8 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Montigny-le-Bretonneux Yvelines | 32,465 | 7.2 | 11.9 | B |
| … | |||||
| 65 | Lunel Hérault | 26,623 | 9.7 | 15.2 | C+ |
| 66 | Bagneux Hauts-de-Seine | 44,572 | 9.8 | 15.2 | C+ |
| 67 | Vallauris Alpes-Maritimes | 29,259 | 7.8 | 17.3 | C |
| 68 | Trappes Yvelines | 34,689 | 11 | 14.2 | C |
| 69 | Orange Vaucluse | 29,706 | 8 | 17.3 | C |
| 70 | Petit-Bourg Guadeloupe | 24,665 | 11.9 | 13.4 | C |
| 71 | Gap Hautes-Alpes | 41,293 | 10.1 | 15.3 | C |
| … | |||||
| 235 | Marseille 2e Bouches-du-Rhône | 24,378 | 20.1 | 103.2 | D− |
Per 1,000 residents a year. Context only: the grade compares Trappes with every compared French town, not just towns its size.
Lowest rate in the graded categories first, 2023–2025 average, with the closest to Trappes and up to four from Yvelines.
About 11 in 1,000: recorded violent incidents a year
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.
Trappes and the towns around it
| Town | People | Violence | Homes, vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trappes | 34,689 | 11 | 14.2 | C |
| Élancourt | 26,365 | 8 | 11.6 | B |
| Montigny-le-Bretonneux | 32,465 | 7.2 | 11.9 | B |
| La Verrière | 5,994 | 10.6 | 15.7 | C |
| Bois-d'Arcy | 16,586 | 8.4 | 13.9 | B− |
| Maurepas | 20,629 | 7.7 | 12.7 | B |
| Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis | 7,276 | 5.5 | 9.6 | A− |
5 of its 6 graded neighbors have a lower recorded rate in the graded categories than Trappes.
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 Trappes
Is Trappes safe?
It has more crime per resident than 66% of compared French towns: an average of 11 recorded violent incidents and 14.2 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, #77 of 91 in Yvelines. Among the 235 French towns of 24,300 to 46,800 people, it is 68th from the lowest rate.
Is crime going up in Trappes?
The recorded rate in the graded categories fell 17% from 2023 to 2025: 26.6 per 1,000 residents in 2023, 22.2 in 2025. The grade uses the three-year average, so one unusual year moves it less.
What is the most common recorded offense in Trappes?
Drug use: 575 in 2025, shown for information, not in the grade. Then theft without violence (261), criminal damage (259) and fraud (195).
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.