Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0Dorval has more crime per resident than 67% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 115.7 for violence and 66.9 for everything else (normally 89.4 and 56). It grades C for safety on crime the police covering Dorval reported from 2023 to 2025: #396 of 503 in Quebec. Per 1,000 residents a year, 15.4 violent incidents and 29.1 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. From 2023 to 2025 its Crime Severity Index stayed steady, 81.4 then 78.4.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Montréal service area.
What stands out about safety in Dorval
Robbery: high for a town its size
Dorval records 1.1 incidents of robbery per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.6 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Dorval scores 80.3. Towns its size ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Dorval is 30th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. 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.
Dorval: C for safety, and why
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: #396 of 503 in Quebec and #1,643 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 Dorval, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Dorval runs highest on robbery (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.6), motor vehicle theft (4.3 per 1,000 against 2.4) and break and enter (3.1 per 1,000 against 2.2). Mischief sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 32 | 0.02 | 65% |
| Sexual violations against children | 412.3 | 0.2 | 40% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 932.7 | 0.4 | 92% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 210.3 | 0.10 | 38% |
| Robbery | 2,329.3 | 1.1 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 371 | 0.2 | 74% |
| Other violent violations | 732.7 | 0.3 | 41% |
| Breaking and entering | 6,567 | 3.1 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 667 | 0.3 | 66% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 9,140 | 4.3 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1,353 | 0.6 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25,416 | 11.8 | 17% |
| Mischief | 6,913.3 | 3.2 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 510 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Administration of justice violations | 6,916.3 | 3.2 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1,578.7 | 0.7 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 2,470.7 | 1.2 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 1,728 | 0.8 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6,866.3 | 3.2 | 8% |
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.
By its index, Dorval stands 30th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quispamsis New Brunswick | 20,240 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac Quebec | 21,949 | 30.8 | 56.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Varennes Quebec | 21,490 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 10 | Mont-Saint-Hilaire Quebec | 19,447 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Sainte-Sophie Quebec | 19,467 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Colchester County, Subdivision B Nova Scotia | 21,578 | 72.9 | 100.8 | C+ |
| 28 | Red Deer County Alberta | 22,076 | 73.6 | 64.8 | C+ |
| 29 | Windsor Nova Scotia | 20,318 | 78.5 | 98.5 | C+ |
| 30 | Dorval Quebec | 21,062 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| 31 | Westmount Quebec | 20,377 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| 32 | Kirkland Quebec | 19,696 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| 33 | Sturgeon County Alberta | 21,144 | 84.7 | 81.5 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Lloydminster (Part) Alberta | 21,267 | 211.6 | 177.2 | 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 Dorval in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 33,000 violent incidents a year across the police area of 2,172,300 residents that includes Dorval, 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 62,300 a year and other violations 22,100 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Dorval, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 81.4, and its lowest 2025, at 78.4. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Dorval | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78.4 | 60 |
| 2024 | 81.2 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 81.4 | 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 Dorval, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Dorval
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorval | 21,062 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Lachine-Ouest | 15,315 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Pointe-Claire | 37,437 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre | 31,113 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Dollard-Des Ormeaux | 50,246 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Côte-Saint-Luc | 37,901 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Bois-Francs | 35,858 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
The comparison skips 6 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- A regional police service. Dorval is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Dorval
Is Dorval safe?
The short answer is an index of 80.3 for Dorval (2023–2025), built from 15.4 violent incidents and 29.1 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. In the middle of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 66.
What is the most common crime in Dorval?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 11.8 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (8.2) and fraud (5.4).
Is crime going up in Dorval?
Not much: the index went from 81.4 in 2023 to 78.4 in 2025.
How much of Dorval’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 32% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (33% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 49% of violent and 21% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Dorval 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).