Akwesasne records more crime per resident than 86% of Canadian towns
2 of the 3 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Add to that, the grade is D, built on crime the police covering Akwesasne reported from 2023 to 2025. The yearly rates were 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Its violent half comes to 141 and its non-violent half to 113, where the norm is 85.7 and 62.8.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts for the Haut-Saint-Laurent MRC.
What stands out about safety in Akwesasne
Above Quebec’s typical town
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Akwesasne scores 120.3. 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.
Akwesasne: D for safety, and why
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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Which crimes make up Akwesasne’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Akwesasne runs highest on assault (9.3 per 1,000 against 6.7). Break and enter and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 25 | 1.1 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.2 | 86% |
| Other violent violations | 11 | 0.5 | 66% |
| Breaking and entering | 49 | 2.1 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.3 | 0.4 | 35% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 37.7 | 1.6 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10.3 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 44 | 1.9 | 36% |
| Mischief | 57.7 | 2.4 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 14.3 | 0.6 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 70.7 | 3 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 86.7 | 3.7 | 20% |
| Drug violations | 33.3 | 1.4 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 48.3 | 2.1 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 29 | 1.2 | 28% |
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.
Around 450 violent incidents a year in the 24,100-resident police area around Akwesasne, 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.
Property crime adds about 310 a year and other violations 930 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Year by year in Akwesasne: down 10%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 160.3; 2025 was lightest, at 95. 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 | Akwesasne | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 160.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 105.6 | 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 Akwesasne, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Akwesasne
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akwesasne | 2,562 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| South Glengarry | 14,355 | 36.9 | 47.2 | A |
| Akwesasne (Part) 59 | 1,947 | 48.7 | 53.5 | B+ |
| Cornwall | 54,346 | 104.5 | 126.4 | C− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Akwesasne. South Glengarry, 12.8 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 36.9 to 120.3.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Akwesasne shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Akwesasne
Is Akwesasne safe?
Akwesasne’s Crime Severity Index is 120.3 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the median is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Akwesasne?
Assault is the most common, at 9.3 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (7.6) and fraud (4).
Is crime going up in Akwesasne?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 10%, to 95 from 105.6.
How much of Akwesasne’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 38% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 71% of violent crime and 20% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Akwesasne and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).