Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0Brossard sees less crime per resident than 64% of Canadian towns
Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 55.1 to 52.8. Each year brought 9.2 violent incidents and 18.1 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (10.8 and 25.1 in the typical town its size). Measured on crime the police covering Brossard reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of B: #182 of 503 in Quebec. Of the two halves, violence comes to 69.5 and other offences to 47.8, beside norms of 75.2 and 54.2.
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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Longueuil service area.
What stands out about safety in Brossard
Lower than many towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Brossard comes 13th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Brossard, 53.7. 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: B for Brossard
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 50,000 people or more.
What police record in Brossard, by type
Against the typical town its size, Brossard runs highest on motor vehicle theft (2.2 per 1,000 against 1.7). 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 50,000 people or more.
Brossard comes 13th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Repentigny Quebec | 91,290 | 28.1 | 48.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Simcoe Ontario | 75,618 | 47 | 59.9 | B+ |
| 11 | Newmarket Ontario | 95,763 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| 12 | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Quebec | 100,806 | 53.1 | 81 | B+ |
| 13 | Brossard Quebec | 97,597 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| 14 | Niagara Falls Ontario | 113,983 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| 15 | St. Albert Alberta | 74,621 | 58.8 | 51.1 | B |
| 16 | Delta British Columbia | 124,670 | 59.7 | 69.8 | B− |
| 17 | Granby Quebec | 72,180 | 62.6 | 92.5 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 21 | Drummondville Quebec | 85,560 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| 22 | Saint-Jérôme Quebec | 85,160 | 77.6 | 129.6 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Prince George British Columbia | 85,944 | 209.1 | 239.6 | 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 Brossard in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Brossard, year by year
Crime Severity Index
From 55.1 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 52.8 in 2025. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Brossard | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52.8 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 53.3 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 55.1 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Brossard, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
The police area Brossard is part of, 458,200 residents, recorded about 4,150 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.
Add about 8,190 property crimes and 3,600 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Brossard
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brossard | 97,597 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| Vieux Greenfield Park | 10,998 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| Iberville | 17,988 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| Nouveau Greenfield Park | 6,199 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| Laflèche | 19,706 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| Maricourt | 14,407 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| La Prairie | 27,159 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
The table leaves out 5 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. 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.
- Severity, weighed. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One service, several municipalities. Brossard is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
- What 100 means. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
Questions about safety in Brossard
Is Brossard safe?
Brossard measures 53.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 9.2 violent incidents and 18.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Brossard?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 6.8 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (4.5) and Criminal Code traffic offences (3.8).
Is crime going up in Brossard?
Not much: the index went from 55.1 in 2023 to 52.8 in 2025.
How much of Brossard’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 36% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 56% of violent crime and 24% of the rest, against 38% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Brossard 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).