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Based on a decade of victimisation and insecurity surveys by the Institut d’Aménagement et d’Urbanisme de la Region Île-de-France (Development and Planning Institute of the Île-de-France Region), this article explores how exposure to victimisation and feelings of insecurity variously combine across a range of urban spaces. The situation is made complex by the fact that neither of these two dimensions works in the same way. Exposure to victimisation varies according to place of residence: people living in Paris and the city’s immediate northern suburbs are at relatively high risk; those living in the rest of the region are at lower risk. Feelings of insecurity work differently, as they seem chiefly related to social status: persons endowed with multiple resources (educational, occupational, financial, etc.) are not oversensitive to security issues: whether exposed to it or not, crime is a minor issue in their eyes. Conversely, concern about security is the lot of working and lower middle classes, although it affects them differently depending on whether respondents live in the working-class inner suburbs of Paris or at the outer reaches of the Île-de-France region.