Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Acton Vale than in 62% of Canadian towns
The index rose from 48.5 in 2023 to 54.9 in 2025. Even so, the local count comes to 12.6 violent incidents and 13.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. The grade is B, built on crime the police covering Acton Vale reported from 2023 to 2025: #226 of 503 in Quebec. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 54.1 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5.
Statistics Canada, police-reported crime, 2023–2025 means. The index weighs each crime by its seriousness; rates are incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Shared with the rest of the Acton MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Acton Vale
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 53% for Acton Vale (68% violent, 40% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Acton Vale comes 26th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Acton Vale records 1.6 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Acton Vale scores 86 for violence and 41.9 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Acton Vale’s grade
The grade weighs the Crime Severity Index and its violent half, averaged over 2023–2025, against every Canadian town and city neighbourhood of 1,000 people or more.
Its place: #226 of 503 in Quebec and #703 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Crime in Acton Vale, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Acton Vale runs highest on drug offences (1.6 per 1,000 against 0.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 15 | 0.9 | 58% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.3 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Breaking and entering | 23.7 | 1.4 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5 | 0.3 | 74% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 22.7 | 1.4 | 12% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39 | 2.4 | 41% |
| Mischief | 41.7 | 2.6 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 0.3 | 74% |
| Administration of justice violations | 57.7 | 3.5 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Drug violations | 25.7 | 1.6 | 66% |
| Impaired driving | 35.7 | 2.2 | 92% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 15.7 | 1 | 24% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment, incidents a year its own. Cleared: incidents solved by a charge or otherwise, as a share of those reported.
Incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 means, against the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Acton Vale, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 59.1; 2023 was lightest, at 48.5. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Acton Vale | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.9 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 59.1 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 48.5 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Acton Vale, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Acton Vale is 26th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alnwick/Haldimand Ontario | 8,197 | 21.6 | 26.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Rigaud Quebec | 8,187 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 13 | Coteau-du-Lac Quebec | 7,839 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Donnacona Quebec | 7,785 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 18 | Baie-Saint-Paul Quebec | 7,760 | 45 | 79.1 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 23 | Cardinal Ontario | 7,952 | 51.4 | 74.1 | B+ |
| 24 | Argyle Nova Scotia | 8,216 | 52.1 | 68.3 | B+ |
| 25 | St. Marys Ontario | 8,203 | 52.5 | 75.2 | B+ |
| 26 | Acton Vale Quebec | 7,945 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| 27 | Saint-Félix-de-Valois Quebec | 7,670 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 28 | Lincoln New Brunswick | 8,093 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| 29 | Cypress County Alberta | 7,855 | 66.6 | 46.6 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Happy Valley-Goose Bay Newfoundland and Labrador | 8,197 | 360 | 345 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Acton Vale in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 210 violent incidents a year across the police area of 16,400 residents that includes Acton Vale, 2023–2025
Violent incidents per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Property crimes per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Statistics Canada counts actual incidents; those police record as unfounded are listed apart and kept out of its crime rates and severity index. Each incident is filed under its most serious violation, which the survey sets partly by the maximum penalty.
Add about 220 property crimes and 150 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Acton Vale
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acton Vale | 7,945 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Saint-Théodore-d'Acton | 1,650 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Roxton Falls | 1,399 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Upton | 2,149 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Roxton | 1,180 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Wickham | 2,745 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Valérien-de-Milton | 1,794 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
1 of the 2 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Acton Vale. Just 14.1 km away, Saint-Valérien-de-Milton comes to 49.7, against 54.1. Its police also cover 4 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Acton Vale shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Acton Vale
Is Acton Vale safe?
Against a typical 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Acton Vale’s Crime Severity Index stands at 54.1 for 2023–2025. Its police record 12.6 violent incidents and 13.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Acton Vale?
Most often it is assault: 5.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 4.8 and other Criminal Code offences at 4.4.
Is crime going up in Acton Vale?
It has: 48.5 in 2023 became 54.9 by 2025, a rise of 13%.
How much of Acton Vale’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 53% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 68% of violent crime and 40% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Acton Vale together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
Source: Statistics Canada, police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025 (Statistics Canada Open Licence); TownRatings calculation.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services (tables 35-10-0186 to 0190, 0061, 0063, 0064), 2023–2025 · Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics by detailed violations, police services (35-10-0178 to 0185) · Safety Grade: TownRatings calculation. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).