Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Armagh records less crime per resident than 85% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 73 and other offences to 26.8, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. Its Safety Grade is A, on crime the police covering Armagh reported from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, in a usual year, 8.5 violent incidents and 9.0 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2.
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. Measured across the Bellechasse MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Armagh
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 55% of crime in Armagh ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 72% of violent crime and 39% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 73 on Armagh’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 26.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Armagh, 39.7. Towns its size ↓
Up since 2023
In 2023 the index in Armagh stood at 34.9, by 2025 at 42.3. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The A for Armagh, and how it is built
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 people or more.
From 2023 to 2025, Armagh’s index climbed 21%
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 42.3, and 2023 lowest at 34.9. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Armagh | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 42 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 34.9 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Armagh, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Armagh’s figures
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 19 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 10.3 | 0.3 | 58% |
| Breaking and entering | 57.3 | 1.5 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.1 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 39.3 | 1 | 39% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 0.2 | 34% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 56.7 | 1.4 | 32% |
| Mischief | 58.3 | 1.5 | 32% |
| Weapons violations | 9.7 | 0.2 | 69% |
| Administration of justice violations | 47 | 1.2 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12 | 0.3 | 61% |
| Drug violations | 20.3 | 0.5 | 92% |
| Impaired driving | 68.7 | 1.7 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 28 | 0.7 | 33% |
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 people or more.
39,600 residents, about 340 violent incidents a year: the police area Armagh belongs to, 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 350 a year and other violations 200 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Armagh
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armagh | 1,437 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Raphaël | 2,488 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Damien-de-Buckland | 1,840 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud | 1,550 | 48.4 | 77.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse | 1,330 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
3 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Armagh among them.
Questions about safety in Armagh
Is Armagh safe?
Armagh’s Crime Severity Index is 39.7 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 8.5 violent incidents and 9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Armagh?
Assault is the most common, at 4 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (3) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.8).
Is crime going up in Armagh?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 21%, to 42.3 from 34.9.
How much of Armagh’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 55% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 72% of violent and 39% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Armagh 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).