Photo: un bouchervillois · Public domainCrime per resident in Boucherville runs lower than in 64% of Canadian towns
None of the 3 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. What’s more, a Safety Grade of B follows from crime the police covering Boucherville reported over the years 2023 to 2025: #182 of 503 in Quebec. Annual rates stand at 9.2 violent incidents and 18.1 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 69.5 and 47.8.
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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Longueuil service area.
What stands out about safety in Boucherville
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Boucherville stands 10th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 53.7 in Boucherville. 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’s behind Boucherville’s grade
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: #182 of 503 in Quebec and #652 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.
What police record in Boucherville, by type
Theft under $5,000 and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 3.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 123.3 | 0.3 | 29% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 104.7 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 16.3 | 0.04 | 43% |
| Robbery | 203.3 | 0.4 | 52% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 31.3 | 0.07 | 83% |
| Other violent violations | 148.3 | 0.3 | 52% |
| Breaking and entering | 865.7 | 1.9 | 16% |
| Possession of stolen property | 80 | 0.2 | 73% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 998.3 | 2.2 | 8% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 570.3 | 1.3 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 3,075.7 | 6.8 | 24% |
| Mischief | 855 | 1.9 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 77 | 0.2 | 60% |
| Administration of justice violations | 992.7 | 2.2 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 171 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Drug violations | 388.7 | 0.9 | 72% |
| Impaired driving | 494 | 1.1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1,051.7 | 2.3 | 15% |
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, Boucherville stands 10th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LaSalle Ontario | 36,452 | 22.9 | 17.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Vaudreuil-Dorion Quebec | 46,413 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Port Moody British Columbia | 38,285 | 43.5 | 43.4 | A− |
| 8 | Saint-Georges Quebec | 33,881 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| 9 | East Gwillimbury Ontario | 42,989 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| 10 | Boucherville Quebec | 41,910 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| 11 | Victoriaville Quebec | 49,863 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| 12 | Saint-Eustache Quebec | 47,562 | 55.4 | 78.9 | B |
| 13 | Fort Erie Ontario | 37,226 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Sorel-Tracy Quebec | 36,537 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| … | |||||
| 20 | Rouyn-Noranda Quebec | 43,270 | 66.7 | 112.8 | B− |
| 21 | Salaberry-de-Valleyfield Quebec | 47,002 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Prince Albert Saskatchewan | 40,728 | 295.8 | 470.9 | 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 Boucherville in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
From 2023 to 2025, Boucherville’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (55.1); 2025 was the lightest, at 52.8. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 69.5 and 2025 gave 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Boucherville | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 53.3 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 55.1 | 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 Boucherville, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
About 4,150 violent incidents a year across the police area of 458,200 residents that includes Boucherville, 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 8,190 a year and other violations 3,600 (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 Boucherville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boucherville | 41,910 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| Fatima | 6,213 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| Collectivité Nouvelle | 3,587 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| Beaurivage | 13,574 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Montréal-Est | 5,112 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Parcours-du-Cerf - Du Tremblay | 21,776 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| Tétreaultville | 19,390 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
Boucherville has the lowest index of the places around it. Sharing its police with 3 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Solved cases. 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.
- 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.”
- A regional police service. The service that polices Boucherville reports once for its whole area, so the figures aren’t the town’s alone.
Questions about safety in Boucherville
Is Boucherville safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Boucherville comes to 53.7. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 9.2 violent incidents and 18.1 property crimes. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, the median is 66.
What is the most common crime in Boucherville?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 6.8 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 4.5 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.8.
Is crime going up in Boucherville?
The index stayed close to where it was, 55.1 in 2023 and 52.8 in 2025.
How much of Boucherville’s crime do police solve?
36%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 33%. Violent crime is cleared at 56% and non-violent crime at 24%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Boucherville and everywhere else it polices.
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).