Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Crime per resident in Clarendon runs lower than in 60% of Canadian towns
The index fell from 57.5 in 2023 to 54.2 in 2025. Its letter for safety is B, worked out from crime the police covering Clarendon reported over 2023 to 2025. The yearly rates were 16.9 violent incidents and 12.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Split in two, the index gives 83.9 for violence and 44.9 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
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 Pontiac MRC.
What stands out about safety in Clarendon
Visitors count, residents divide
About 37% of Clarendon’s homes are cottages, second homes or otherwise empty much of the year: crime in the busy months is divided by year-round residents only, which lifts every rate here. How to read it ↓
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 63% of Clarendon’s crime, weighted by seriousness (79% of violent crime, 51% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Clarendon’s two halves part ways: 83.9 for violence (typical 86.4) and 44.9 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
About the Quebec norm
Clarendon’s index of 55.7 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.
What’s behind Clarendon’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.
Clarendon, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 57.5, against a low of 54.2 in 2025. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Clarendon | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 55.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 57.5 | 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 Clarendon, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Clarendon’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Clarendon runs highest on assault (8.4 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 9 | 0.6 | 78% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.3 | 0.6 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6 | 0.4 | 38% |
| Breaking and entering | 34.7 | 2.3 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 23.3 | 1.6 | 23% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 35 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Mischief | 37.3 | 2.5 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 9.3 | 0.6 | 100% |
| Administration of justice violations | 59 | 4 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.3 | 0.5 | 82% |
| Drug violations | 37.3 | 2.5 | 98% |
| Impaired driving | 45.3 | 3 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 13.7 | 0.9 | 29% |
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.
15,000 residents, about 250 violent incidents a year: the police area Clarendon 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.
Add about 190 property crimes and 190 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 Clarendon
2 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Clarendon among them.
Questions about safety in Clarendon
Is Clarendon safe?
Police-reported crime in Clarendon scores 55.7 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 16.9 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Clarendon?
Top of the list is assault (8.4 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 5.4, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 4.6, follow.
Is crime going up in Clarendon?
No: the index fell 6%, from 57.5 in 2023 to 54.2 in 2025.
How much of Clarendon’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 63% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 79% of violent crime and 51% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Clarendon 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).