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Photo: Unknown Unknown · Public domainChamplain sees less crime per resident than 86% of Canadian towns
Neither of the two towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Measured on crime the police covering Champlain reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of A. Its violent half comes to 52 and its non-violent half to 34.5, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Each year brought 9.0 violent incidents and 11.2 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (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 Chenaux MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Champlain
Under the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 39.2 in Champlain. Towns its size ↓
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 48% of Champlain’s crime, weighted by seriousness (72% of violent crime, 34% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. 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 Champlain’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 Champlain, up 14% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 44.1, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2023, came in at 34.4. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Champlain | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 44.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 34.4 | 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 Champlain, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Champlain’s crime by kind
Fraud and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6.3 | 0.5 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 33 | 2.4 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.3 | 1.4 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25.3 | 1.8 | 24% |
| Mischief | 23.7 | 1.7 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 23.7 | 1.7 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 7.3 | 0.5 | 64% |
| Impaired driving | 18 | 1.3 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 14.7 | 1.1 | 18% |
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.
13,900 residents, about 120 violent incidents a year: the police area Champlain belongs to, 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 150 a year and other violations 78 (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 Champlain
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champlain | 1,957 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Maurice | 3,804 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Batiscan | 1,006 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan | 1,137 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets | 1,172 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
| Bécancour | 14,943 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
| Saint-Narcisse | 1,848 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
Champlain has the lowest index of the places around it. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 4 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Champlain alone.
Questions about safety in Champlain
Is Champlain safe?
The short answer is an index of 39.2 for Champlain (2023–2025), built from 9 violent incidents and 11.2 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Champlain?
Police record assault most, 3.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (3.2) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.9).
Is crime going up in Champlain?
It has: 34.4 in 2023 became 39.2 by 2025, a rise of 14%.
How much of Champlain’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 48% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 72% of violent and 34% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Champlain 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).