Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Bécancour than in 75% of Canadian towns
The grade is A−, built on crime the police covering Bécancour reported from 2023 to 2025: #134 of 503 in Quebec. For every 1,000 residents, 9.4 violent incidents and 12.5 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical town its size, the figures are 12.0 and 30.5. Split in two, the index gives 64.3 for violence and 39.8 for everything else (normally 89.4 and 56). In 2023 the index stood at 46.1; it fell to 43.5 in 2025.
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 Bécancour MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Bécancour
More crime solved
Police cleared 50% of Bécancour’s crime, weighted by seriousness (71% of violent crime, 37% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Bécancour is 15th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Near the Quebec middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Bécancour scores 46.5. 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 Bécancour’s A−
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: #134 of 503 in Quebec and #432 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.
Bécancour’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Bécancour runs highest on Cannabis Act offences (0.6 per 1,000 against 0.06) and drug offences (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.8). 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 | 14.3 | 0.7 | 65% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6 | 0.3 | 83% |
| Breaking and entering | 44.7 | 2 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 48 | 2.2 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6 | 0.3 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 60.7 | 2.8 | 39% |
| Mischief | 31.3 | 1.4 | 36% |
| Weapons violations | 6 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 85.7 | 3.9 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 24.7 | 1.1 | 46% |
| Impaired driving | 37.7 | 1.7 | 88% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 28.3 | 1.3 | 18% |
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.
The police area Bécancour is part of, 22,100 residents, recorded about 210 violent incidents a year (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 270 property crimes, plus 200 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
By its index, Bécancour stands 15th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiny Ontario | 14,195 | 27.9 | 36.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Val-des-Monts Quebec | 14,473 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Saint-Amable Quebec | 14,119 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 12 | Prévost Quebec | 14,275 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| 13 | Pincourt Quebec | 15,220 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 14 | Severn Ontario | 15,716 | 41.7 | 48.8 | A− |
| 15 | Bécancour Quebec | 14,943 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
| 16 | Ingersoll Ontario | 14,911 | 47.7 | 60.5 | B+ |
| 17 | Rosemère Quebec | 14,198 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| 18 | High River Alberta | 15,508 | 50.5 | 56.6 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 20 | Sainte-Adèle Quebec | 15,216 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Matane Quebec | 14,180 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 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 Bécancour in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Bécancour, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 50.1, with 2025 the lightest at 43.5. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Bécancour | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.5 | 60 |
| 2024 | 50.1 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 46.1 | 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 Bécancour, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Bécancour
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bécancour | 14,943 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
| Trois-Rivières | 149,934 | 61.5 | 93.7 | B− |
| Nicolet | 8,737 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Champlain | 1,957 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Maurice | 3,804 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Wenceslas | 1,202 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
Nearby, 2 of 5 places with their own figures have a lower index than Bécancour. The nearest of them, Champlain (15.5 km away), scores 39.2 against 46.5.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Bécancour shares it with its neighbours.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Bécancour
Is Bécancour safe?
Against a typical 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, Bécancour’s Crime Severity Index stands at 46.5 for 2023–2025. Its police record 9.4 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Bécancour?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 4.2 and fraud at 3.5.
Is crime going up in Bécancour?
It went down 6% between 2023 and 2025, from 46.1 to 43.5.
How much of Bécancour’s crime do police solve?
About 50% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 71% of violent and 37% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Bécancour 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).