What are the 10 French cities ranked by criminal damage?

In order: Deauville, Cauterets, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Saint-Tropez, Berck, Cabourg, Tignes, Angoulême, Canet-en-Roussillon and Alençon.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by criminal damage?

Deauville (28.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Cauterets (28.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (26.8 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Tropez (23.9 / 1,000 inhab.) and Berck (23 / 1,000 inhab.).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by criminal damage?

Cauterets, at 28.6 / 1,000 inhab., just behind Deauville (28.6 / 1,000 inhab.).

Is Deauville really the French city ranked first on criminal damage?

Yes, at 28.6 / 1,000 inhab., ahead of Cauterets (28.6 / 1,000 inhab.) and Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (26.8 / 1,000 inhab.).

In which département is Deauville?

Deauville is in département 14, in the Normandie region.

Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by criminal damage?

Alençon, at 19.9 / 1,000 inhab.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,100, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by criminal damage in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Deauville leads with 28.6 / 1,000 inhab.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by criminal damage?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,100, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Deauville (28.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Cauterets (28.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (26.8 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Tropez (23.9 / 1,000 inhab.), Berck (23 / 1,000 inhab.), Cabourg (22.4 / 1,000 inhab.), Tignes (21.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Angoulême (20.3 / 1,000 inhab.), Canet-en-Roussillon (20.2 / 1,000 inhab.), Alençon (19.9 / 1,000 inhab.).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from SSMSI, délinquance enregistrée par commune, joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

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Among towns of more than 10,000 people, the first in this ranking is Berck, at 23 / 1,000 inhabitants (no. 5 overall). Deauville leads on criminal damage, with 28.6 / 1,000 inhabitants, then Cauterets (28.6 / 1,000 inhabitants) and Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (26.8 / 1,000 inhabitants).

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Criminal damage, 1040 cities shown. The coloured surface estimates the local tendency from nearby ranked cities. Exact city values remain in the table. 60 ranked overseas cities are not plotted: they fall outside this map's frame. Projection: longitude compressed by cos(46.3°N), so east-west and north-south distances stay comparable. Source: SSMSI, délinquance enregistrée par commune · 2023-2025.

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Top 50 of 1,100 cities
Rank	City	Criminal damage / 1,000 inhab.	Population	Region
1	14 Deauville	28.6	3,539	Normandie
2	65 Cauterets	28.6	829	Occitanie
3	62 Le Touquet-Paris-Plage	26.8	4,224	Hauts-de-France
4	83 Saint-Tropez	23.9	3,582	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
5	62 Berck	23	12,951	Hauts-de-France
6	14 Cabourg	22.4	3,725	Normandie
7	73 Tignes	21.5	1,919	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
8	16 Angoulême	20.3	41,908	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
9	66 Canet-en-Roussillon	20.2	13,227	Occitanie
10	61 Alençon	19.9	25,490	Normandie
11	02 Saint-Quentin	19.6	52,813	Hauts-de-France
12	59 Denain	19	20,665	Hauts-de-France
13	73 Val-d'Isère	18.9	1,567	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
14	40 Dax	18.5	22,109	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
15	62 Saint-Omer	18.2	14,382	Hauts-de-France
16	70 Vesoul	18.2	15,078	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
17	06 Villefranche-sur-Mer	18	5,008	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
18	34 Agde	18	29,939	Occitanie
19	66 Argelès-sur-Mer	17.9	10,616	Occitanie
20	14 Trouville-sur-Mer	17.8	4,619	Normandie
21	59 Caudry	17.8	13,833	Hauts-de-France
22	62 Montreuil-sur-Mer	17.6	1,912	Hauts-de-France
23	62 Boulogne-sur-Mer	17.3	40,539	Hauts-de-France
24	17 Saintes	17.2	25,363	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
25	17 Rochefort	17.1	23,460	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
26	62 Béthune	17.1	25,224	Hauts-de-France
27	50 Granville	17	12,510	Normandie
28	13 Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer	17	2,433	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
29	76 Elbeuf	16.9	15,474	Normandie
30	80 Abbeville	16.8	22,395	Hauts-de-France
31	55 Verdun	16.8	16,890	Grand Est
32	29 Morlaix	16.8	15,194	Bretagne
33	62 Bruay-la-Buissière	16.7	21,424	Hauts-de-France
34	66 Perpignan	16.7	121,616	Occitanie
35	58 Nevers	16.5	33,085	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
36	971 Pointe-à-Pitre	16.5	15,040	Guadeloupe
37	35 Fougères	16.2	20,307	Bretagne
38	38 Grenoble	16.2	156,140	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
39	69 Vénissieux	16.1	65,502	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
40	11 Narbonne	16.1	57,587	Occitanie
41	45 Montargis	16.1	14,825	Centre-Val de Loire
42	51 Châlons-en-Champagne	16	42,971	Grand Est
43	23 Guéret	16	12,955	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
44	47 Agen	15.9	32,801	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
45	62 Lens	15.9	32,920	Hauts-de-France
46	42 Roanne	15.9	35,409	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
47	74 La Clusaz	15.8	1,623	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
48	42 Saint-Étienne	15.8	173,136	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
49	80 Amiens	15.8	136,449	Hauts-de-France
50	80 Saint-Valery-sur-Somme	15.8	2,306	Hauts-de-France

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Scope, method and sources

Scope: France, metropolitan and overseas, Corsica and the DROM included. This dataset holds every commune of 10,000 inhabitants or more, plus smaller communes famous enough to be household names, 1,131 in all. It is not the full list of 35,000 French communes, so a village can sit outside a ranking whose extreme it would otherwise hold.

Method and sources: populations are the INSEE legal populations, boundaries and coordinates come from the IGN commune registry, both served by geo.api.gouv.fr. Density is the population divided by the commune's area; distances are measured as the crow flies from the commune's centre. Data read on August 28, 2026.

11 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by criminal damage?: In order: Deauville, Cauterets, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Saint-Tropez, Berck, Cabourg, Tignes, Angoulême, Canet-en-Roussillon and Alençon.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by criminal damage?: Deauville (28.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Cauterets (28.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (26.8 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Tropez (23.9 / 1,000 inhab.) and Berck (23 / 1,000 inhab.).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by criminal damage?: Cauterets, at 28.6 / 1,000 inhab., just behind Deauville (28.6 / 1,000 inhab.).
Is Deauville really the French city ranked first on criminal damage?: Yes, at 28.6 / 1,000 inhab., ahead of Cauterets (28.6 / 1,000 inhab.) and Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (26.8 / 1,000 inhab.).
In which département is Deauville?: Deauville is in département 14, in the Normandie region.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by criminal damage?: Alençon, at 19.9 / 1,000 inhab.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,100, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by criminal damage in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Deauville leads with 28.6 / 1,000 inhab.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by criminal damage?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,100, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Deauville (28.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Cauterets (28.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (26.8 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Tropez (23.9 / 1,000 inhab.), Berck (23 / 1,000 inhab.), Cabourg (22.4 / 1,000 inhab.), Tignes (21.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Angoulême (20.3 / 1,000 inhab.), Canet-en-Roussillon (20.2 / 1,000 inhab.), Alençon (19.9 / 1,000 inhab.).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from SSMSI, délinquance enregistrée par commune, joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

The table below ranks the top 50 of the 1,100 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (criminal damage), so you can see not just the order but how far apart the places are. The numbers are official public data: INSEE legal populations and the IGN commune registry, with the exact method and the exact scope stated under the table rather than left to be guessed at.

The same data answers neighbouring questions too: see Criminal damage: the bottom 50 French cities and Assaults outside the family: the top 50 French cities, or all rankings for the full list. All of it comes from Le Bon Rang, a free daily game that gives you five French cities and one of these statistics and asks you for the order.