Photo: Wscaswell · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Brigham records more crime than 61% of Canadian towns
Each of the 3 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 96 and 64.2. On the record of crime the police covering Brigham reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C+ for safety. Violence and property crime split as 12.4 violent incidents and 12.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 Brome-Missisquoi MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Brigham
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Brigham records 6.7 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Brigham’s index of 72.8 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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.
The grade: C+ for Brigham
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.
Which crimes make up Brigham’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Brigham runs highest on Cannabis Act offences (5 per 1,000 against 0.05) and drug offences (6.7 per 1,000 against 0.7). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 58.3 | 1 | 41% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 16 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 4.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.09 | 94% |
| Other violent violations | 13 | 0.2 | 44% |
| Breaking and entering | 104.7 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5 | 0.09 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 43.7 | 0.8 | 23% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 22.7 | 0.4 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 144.3 | 2.5 | 37% |
| Mischief | 118.7 | 2.1 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 9.3 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 126 | 2.2 | 97% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 30.7 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Drug violations | 385.7 | 6.7 | 18% |
| Impaired driving | 123.7 | 2.2 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 85 | 1.5 | 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 2,500 people or more.
Year by year in Brigham: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (86.7) and 2023 the trough (64.4). The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Brigham | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 86.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 64.4 | 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 Brigham, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Brigham is part of, 58,000 residents, recorded about 710 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.
Property crime adds about 710 a year and other violations 850 (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 Brigham
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brigham | 2,386 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| Cowansville | 17,269 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby | 3,545 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| Dunham | 3,632 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| Bromont | 12,413 | 38.1 | 45.9 | A |
| Farnham | 11,315 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| Ange-Gardien | 3,100 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Brigham. Closest is Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby, 8.3 km away, at 45.3 to 72.8 here. 3 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
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- What clearance means. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- An index, not a verdict. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Brigham shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Brigham
Is Brigham safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Brigham scores 72.8 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 12.4 violent and 12.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Brigham?
Top of the list is drug offences (6.7 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 6, and Cannabis Act offences, at 5, follow.
Is crime going up in Brigham?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 64.4 to 67.4.
How much of Brigham’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 38% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 57% of violent crime and 27% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Brigham 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).