Nantes

Go with a plan.

Numbeo's Safety Index puts Nantes at 42/100 for crime — that makes it read sketchier than France's national picture overall (66/100 vs 75/100).

Verified Jul 12, 2026Confidence high
66Sketch Score

City page · part of France

The one number a country page can't give you

What people who actually live in Nantes report

Numbeo aggregates thousands of resident-submitted perception surveys into a per-city Crime Index (higher = worse) and its inverse, a Safety Index — the only real city-granularity crime signal feeding this page, alongside France's national advisory, political, health, and police-trust data.

Crime Index

58.5

Safety Index

41.5

Source: Numbeo, user-submitted →

Sub-scores

Same real inputs as France's national page, with crime swapped for Nantes's own Numbeo number above.

78advisoryConsensus
58Political Stability
70Police Trust
76Health
42Crime
90LGBTQ+

Legal status (national law)

Legal nationwide since 1791Legal in Savoy since 1792; equal age of consent since 1982 + UN decl. sign.

Source: Wikipedia — LGBTQ rights by country →

Pack this, know this

The little things that trip people up

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Plug & voltage

C / E · 230V

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Driving side

right

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Emergency

police: 112 or 17 / ambulance: 112 or 15 / fire: 112 or 18

How this compares to France

Numbeo's Safety Index puts Nantes at 42/100 for crime — that makes it read sketchier than France's national picture overall (66/100 vs 75/100).

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