Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Candiac records less crime per resident than 83% of Canadian towns
The Safety Grade comes out at A−, drawn from crime the police covering Candiac reported through 2023 to 2025: #78 of 503 in Quebec. From 2023 to 2025 its Crime Severity Index stayed steady, 40.8 then 39.8. Typical years here bring 9.7 violent incidents plus 13.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 30.5 in the typical town its size. Its violent half comes to 59.8 and its non-violent half to 34.6, where the norm is 89.4 and 56.
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 Roussillon Region service area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Candiac
Lighter than Quebec’s middle
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Candiac, 41.6. Towns its size ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Candiac comes 15th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Above-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 45% for Candiac (66% violent, 31% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
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 Candiac’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: #78 of 503 in Quebec and #319 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.
Crime in Candiac, type by type
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 20 | 0.2 | 54% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 25.7 | 0.2 | 98% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 18 | 0.1 | 67% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 18 | 0.1 | 93% |
| Other violent violations | 59.7 | 0.5 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 141 | 1.2 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 22 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 178 | 1.5 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 33.7 | 0.3 | 27% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 466 | 3.9 | 32% |
| Mischief | 177 | 1.5 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 12.3 | 0.1 | 81% |
| Administration of justice violations | 255.7 | 2.1 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 52.3 | 0.4 | 69% |
| Drug violations | 86 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 159 | 1.3 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 198.7 | 1.6 | 27% |
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.
Around 1,170 violent incidents a year in the 122,100-resident police area around Candiac, 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 1,630 a year and other violations 840 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Candiac is 15th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Beloeil Quebec | 25,240 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 12 | L'Assomption Quebec | 25,126 | 39.2 | 59 | A |
| 13 | Saint-Lazare Quebec | 22,895 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 14 | La Prairie Quebec | 27,159 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 15 | Candiac Quebec | 24,920 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 16 | Port Perry Ontario | 23,928 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| 17 | Uxbridge Ontario | 22,618 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| 18 | Sainte-Thérèse Quebec | 27,253 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 21 | Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville Quebec | 26,786 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| 22 | Saint-Lambert Quebec | 23,355 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| 23 | Saint-Lin--Laurentides Quebec | 26,673 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Yellowknife Northwest Territories | 22,858 | 304.6 | 362 | 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 Candiac in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Candiac, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 44.1 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 39.8 in 2025. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 69.5 to 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Candiac | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 44.1 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 40.8 | 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 Candiac, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Candiac
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candiac | 24,920 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Delson | 8,802 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Catherine | 17,782 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Saint-Philippe | 8,674 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| La Prairie | 27,159 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Saint-Constant | 32,124 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Saint-Mathieu | 2,642 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
Its police also cover 6 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- 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 policing. A regional or shared police service reports one set of figures for every municipality it covers, Candiac included.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Candiac
Is Candiac safe?
Candiac scores 41.6 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66; per 1,000 residents a year that is 9.7 violent incidents and 13.5 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Candiac?
Most often it is fraud: 4.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 4.4 and theft under $5,000 at 3.9.
Is crime going up in Candiac?
Hardly at all, from 40.8 in 2023 to 39.8 in 2025.
How much of Candiac’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 45% of crime (66% of violent crime, 31% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Candiac 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).