Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Adstock sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
All 3 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Adstock at B (#242 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns. Still, by 2025 the index had climbed to 53.9, up from 49.5 in 2023. Per 1,000 residents a year, 15.6 violent incidents and 15.4 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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 Appalaches MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Adstock
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 54% of Adstock’s crime, weighted by seriousness (73% of violent crime, 38% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Adstock’s two halves part ways: 93.4 for violence (typical 85.7) and 41.4 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Adstock stands 20th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 55.9 in Adstock. Towns its size ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Adstock’s B
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: #242 of 503 in Quebec and #736 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.
Adstock’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Adstock runs highest on fraud (5.6 per 1,000 against 4.9) and assault (7.7 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 30 | 0.7 | 67% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 15 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 7 | 0.2 | 81% |
| Other violent violations | 15.3 | 0.3 | 76% |
| Breaking and entering | 95 | 2.1 | 35% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 39 | 0.9 | 30% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9.7 | 0.2 | 34% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 157.3 | 3.5 | 36% |
| Mischief | 121 | 2.7 | 34% |
| Weapons violations | 13.3 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 119.7 | 2.7 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 43 | 1 | 67% |
| Impaired driving | 90.7 | 2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 76 | 1.7 | 21% |
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.
Adstock, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (64.3) and 2023 the trough (49.5). The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Adstock | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53.9 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 64.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 49.5 | 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 Adstock, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 700 violent incidents a year in the 45,300-resident police area around Adstock, 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.
And about 690 property crimes, plus 380 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Among 40 towns its size, Adstock places 20th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelaide-Metcalfe Ontario | 3,196 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Beaumont Quebec | 3,188 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Quebec | 3,173 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| 9 | Saint-Alexis-des-Monts Quebec | 3,190 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| 10 | Stoke Quebec | 3,272 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Pilot Butte Saskatchewan | 3,255 | 52.8 | 60.8 | B+ |
| 18 | Electoral Area D, North Okanagan British Columbia | 3,184 | 53.2 | 66.4 | B+ |
| 19 | Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine British Columbia | 3,189 | 53.7 | 75.4 | B |
| 20 | Adstock Quebec | 3,203 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| 21 | Clermont Quebec | 3,117 | 57.2 | 83.8 | B |
| 22 | Enderby British Columbia | 3,292 | 62.6 | 70.8 | B− |
| 23 | Mont-Saint-Grégoire Quebec | 3,158 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | La Loche Saskatchewan | 3,124 | 1,107 | 1,524.7 | 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 Adstock in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Adstock
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adstock | 3,203 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce | 2,575 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| La Guadeloupe | 1,927 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Thetford Mines | 27,155 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Victor | 2,344 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Adstock. Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce, 11.6 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 47.7 to 55.9. The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Adstock alone.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Adstock
Is Adstock safe?
With 15.6 violent incidents and 15.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Adstock comes to 55.9 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people have a median of 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Adstock?
Top of the list is assault (7.7 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 5.6, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 4, follow.
Is crime going up in Adstock?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 9%, to 53.9 from 49.5.
How much of Adstock’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 54% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 73% of violent and 38% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Adstock and everywhere else it polices.
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).