Photo: Groupe de recherche en art du Québec · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Beauharnois runs higher than in 63% of Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 75.4, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 66 for the typical Canadian town its size. What’s more, the grade is C+, built on crime the police covering Beauharnois reported from 2023 to 2025: #382 of 503 in Quebec. Annual rates stand at 23.9 violent incidents and 16.7 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Each of the 3 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Beauharnois-Salaberry MRC.
What stands out about safety in Beauharnois
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Beauharnois records 1.9 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 57% for Beauharnois (72% violent, 42% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Beauharnois is 29th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Beauharnois scores 75.4. 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.
Inside Beauharnois’s C+ for safety
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: #382 of 503 in Quebec and #1,575 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Crime in Beauharnois, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Beauharnois runs highest on drug offences (1.9 per 1,000 against 0.8), assault (13.4 per 1,000 against 6.6) and sexual assault (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.8). Motor vehicle theft 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 | 51 | 0.9 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 40.7 | 0.7 | 89% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 18.3 | 0.3 | 66% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 12.7 | 0.2 | 97% |
| Other violent violations | 24 | 0.4 | 78% |
| Breaking and entering | 146 | 2.5 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 14 | 0.2 | 84% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 74 | 1.3 | 18% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 27 | 0.5 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 282 | 4.8 | 45% |
| Mischief | 157 | 2.7 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 26.3 | 0.4 | 80% |
| Administration of justice violations | 216.7 | 3.7 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 37.7 | 0.6 | 74% |
| Drug violations | 109 | 1.9 | 93% |
| Impaired driving | 109 | 1.8 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 165.3 | 2.8 | 14% |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
By its index, Beauharnois stands 29th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dorchester Ontario | 15,475 | 28.2 | 19.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Val-des-Monts Quebec | 14,473 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Mercier Quebec | 16,036 | 35.9 | 60.1 | A |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Pincourt Quebec | 15,220 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 16 | Bécancour Quebec | 14,943 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Lacombe Alberta | 14,733 | 61.7 | 47.6 | B− |
| 27 | Gravenhurst Ontario | 14,576 | 65.4 | 90.3 | B− |
| 28 | Mont-Laurier Quebec | 14,598 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| 29 | Beauharnois Quebec | 15,285 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| 30 | Lachute Quebec | 15,469 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| 31 | Whistler British Columbia | 15,090 | 83.8 | 82.3 | C |
| 32 | Grand Falls-Windsor Newfoundland and Labrador | 14,510 | 92.1 | 84.1 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | North Battleford Saskatchewan | 14,882 | 528.4 | 591.9 | 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 Beauharnois in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
In Beauharnois, down 6% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
From 77.1 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 72.8 in 2025. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 69.5 to 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Beauharnois | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 76.4 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 77.1 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Beauharnois, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 1,410 violent incidents a year in the 60,100-resident police area around Beauharnois, 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 980 a year and other violations 730 (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 Beauharnois
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauharnois | 15,285 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Saint-Étienne-de-Beauharnois | 1,151 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Léry | 2,817 | — | — | — |
| Pointe-des-Cascades | 1,867 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Sainte-Martine | 5,884 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot | 11,716 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Mercier | 16,036 | 35.9 | 60.1 | A |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Beauharnois. Pointe-des-Cascades, 8.1 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 39.2 to 75.4. 2 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- 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. 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.”
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Beauharnois shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Beauharnois
Is Beauharnois safe?
The short answer is an index of 75.4 for Beauharnois (2023–2025), built from 23.9 violent incidents and 16.7 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66.
What is the most common crime in Beauharnois?
Top of the list is assault (13.4 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 5.1, and other Criminal Code offences, at 5.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Beauharnois?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 6%, to 72.8 from 77.1.
How much of Beauharnois’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 57%: 72% for violent crime and 42% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Beauharnois 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).