This territory alone concentrates almost 45 % of the flights and burglaries identified.
When you plan to settle somewhere, whether to raise a family, start a new job or simply change your living environment, local security becomes a fundamental criterion. Not all departments are created in terms of tranquility. Some display significantly higher delinquency rates than others, which can deeply impact the quality of daily life. Knowing the most affected territories therefore makes it possible to better understand where life is good in France … and where you may have to redouble a vigilance.
According to the latest ranking published by the Internet user, the Bouches-du-Rhône rank as the most dangerous department in France after Paris. This ranking is based on official police and gendarmerie statistics, by reporting the number of crimes and crimes to the local population in 2024, an expressed rate for 1,000 inhabitants. With 165,136 offenses identified for just over two million inhabitants, the department has a rate of 79.78 per thousand, just behind the capital, which culminates more than 116 per thousand inhabitants. The classification takes into account a wide range of offenses: burglaries, violence, drug trafficking, degradations, scams or even intra -family violence.
In detail, it is mainly thefts and burglaries that draw the figures upwards, representing nearly 45 % of the facts identified, followed by trafficking and uses of narcotics and physical violence. These three types of offenses alone represent more than two thirds of crimes and crimes in the department. Among the other most dangerous departments, Seine-Saint-Denis climbs in third place, followed by the Rhône, Hérault, Guadeloupe, Alpes-Maritimes, Guyana, Val-d’Oise and finally the Pyrénées-Orientales which completes this Top 10.
Conversely, among the safest departments in France, Cantal records that 26% cases per thousand inhabitants or 3,777 cases for the year 2024. The inhabitants of Lozère, Aveyron, the Manche, the Haute-Loire, Dordogne, de la Creuse, de Lot or Vendée are among the luckiest in terms of tranquility in their department.
