Photo: Jacques Dupont · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Bolton-Est than in 84% of Canadian towns
For solved cases, the weighted rate is 40%, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. A Safety Grade of A− follows from crime the police covering Bolton-Est reported over the years 2023 to 2025. The yearly rates were 8.2 violent incidents and 7.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Split in two, the index gives 58.3 for violence and 32.9 for everything else (normally 86.4 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 published for the Memphrémagog MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Bolton-Est
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Bolton-Est, yet 35% of its homes are seasonal or empty: the rates run higher than the place feels to the people who live there. How to read it ↓
Down since 2023
In 2023 the index in Bolton-Est stood at 45.1, by 2025 at 34.8. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 39.9 in Bolton-Est. 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 Bolton-Est’s A− 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Bolton-Est’s index fell 23% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 45.1, against a low of 34.8 in 2025. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Bolton-Est | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34.8 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 39.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 45.1 | 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 Bolton-Est, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 150 violent incidents a year across the police area of 18,800 residents that includes Bolton-Est, 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 150 a year and other violations 210 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in Bolton-Est, type by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 11 | 0.6 | 48% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 32.3 | 1.8 | 16% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13 | 0.7 | 2% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.7 | 0.4 | 10% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 21.7 | 1.2 | 23% |
| Mischief | 23.3 | 1.3 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 15.3 | 0.8 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11 | 0.6 | 27% |
| Drug violations | 9.3 | 0.5 | 29% |
| Impaired driving | 25.7 | 1.4 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 13.3 | 0.7 | 10% |
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.
Crime in the places around Bolton-Est
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Bolton-Est. 4 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
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 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Bolton-Est alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Bolton-Est
Is Bolton-Est safe?
Statistics Canada puts Bolton-Est at 39.9 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 8.2 and property crimes at 7.9 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Bolton-Est?
Top of the list is assault (3.6 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 2.4, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 2.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Bolton-Est?
The reverse: 45.1 in 2023 came down to 34.8 by 2025, 23% lower.
How much of Bolton-Est’s crime do police solve?
40%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 59% and non-violent crime at 26%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Bolton-Est 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).