Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Bury than in 67% of Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 50.5, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. Behind the grade sit 12.1 violent incidents and 11.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Scored on crime the police covering Bury reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on B+ for safety.
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 Haut-Saint-François MRC.
What stands out about safety in Bury
Lighter than in 2023
Bury’s index went from 55.3 in 2023 to 44.4 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 47% for Bury (60% violent, 35% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 50.5 in Bury. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
Bury scores 89.1 for violence and 35.5 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
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 Bury’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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
In Bury, down 20% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 55.3 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 44.4. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Bury | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 51.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.3 | 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 Bury, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 290 violent incidents a year in the 24,300-resident police area around Bury, 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 280 property crimes, plus 130 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in Bury, type by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 25.3 | 1.1 | 38% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 8.7 | 0.4 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 49.7 | 2.1 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 29.3 | 1.2 | 19% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 27% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 43.7 | 1.8 | 31% |
| Mischief | 46.7 | 2 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.2 | 70% |
| Administration of justice violations | 33.7 | 1.4 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 17.3 | 0.7 | 68% |
| Impaired driving | 34.3 | 1.4 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 20 | 0.8 | 22% |
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 Bury
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bury | 1,243 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| Westbury | 1,207 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| Dudswell | 1,850 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| East Angus | 4,261 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
3 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Bury shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
Questions about safety in Bury
Is Bury safe?
With 12.1 violent incidents and 11.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Bury comes to 50.5 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Bury?
The three biggest groups are assault at 5.7, fraud at 3.8 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 2.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Bury?
The reverse: 55.3 in 2023 came down to 44.4 by 2025, 20% lower.
How much of Bury’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 47% of crime (60% of violent crime, 35% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Bury 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).