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Photo: Unknown Unknown · Public domainDrummondville sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
For solved cases, the weighted rate is 49%, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 38%. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Drummondville at C+ (#362 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns. Annual rates stand at 18.0 violent incidents and 19.5 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical town its size. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 72.2 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 60.3.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Drummond MRC.
What stands out about safety in Drummondville
Assault: high for a town its size
Drummondville records 8.9 incidents of assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. By type ↓
Heavier on violence
Drummondville’s index splits into violent crime, 124.7 here and 75.2 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 51.8 against 54.2. By type ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 72.2 in Drummondville. Towns its size ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Drummondville stands 22nd, the lowest first. 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 Drummondville’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: #362 of 503 in Quebec and #1,514 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What police record in Drummondville, by type
Against the typical town its size, Drummondville runs highest on assault (8.9 per 1,000 against 4.9), sexual assault (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.8) and drug offences (1.3 per 1,000 against 0.9). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 156.7 | 1.4 | 60% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 36.7 | 0.3 | 98% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 33.3 | 0.3 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 21 | 0.2 | 87% |
| Other violent violations | 58 | 0.5 | 72% |
| Breaking and entering | 255.7 | 2.2 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 44 | 0.4 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 221 | 1.9 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 47.7 | 0.4 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 609.3 | 5.3 | 36% |
| Mischief | 364 | 3.2 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 29.3 | 0.3 | 71% |
| Administration of justice violations | 377.3 | 3.3 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 59 | 0.5 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 146.7 | 1.3 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 261.3 | 2.3 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 260.7 | 2.3 | 12% |
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 50,000 people or more.
Year by year in Drummondville: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 74.7, and 2024 the lightest at 69.4. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Drummondville | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.3 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 69.4 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 74.7 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Drummondville, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 2,050 violent incidents a year in the 115,700-resident police area around Drummondville, 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 2,220 property crimes, plus 1,200 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
By its index, Drummondville stands 22nd of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Repentigny Quebec | 91,290 | 28.1 | 48.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Blainville Quebec | 61,739 | 34.9 | 41.4 | A |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Saint-Hyacinthe Quebec | 60,874 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| 11 | Mirabel Quebec | 68,471 | 50.1 | 57.3 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Granby Quebec | 72,180 | 62.6 | 92.5 | B− |
| 20 | Strathcona County Alberta | 107,345 | 68.4 | 61.3 | B− |
| 21 | Peterborough Ontario | 97,834 | 71.7 | 89.4 | C+ |
| 22 | Drummondville Quebec | 85,560 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| 23 | Belleville Ontario | 62,914 | 76.8 | 94.1 | C+ |
| 24 | Saint-Jérôme Quebec | 85,160 | 77.6 | 129.6 | C+ |
| 25 | Sarnia Ontario | 80,539 | 79.4 | 105.1 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Prince George British Columbia | 85,944 | 209.1 | 239.6 | 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 Drummondville in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Drummondville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drummondville | 85,560 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover | 5,242 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Germain-de-Grantham | 5,054 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham | 1,373 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Lucien | 1,941 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Wickham | 2,745 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Eugène | 1,180 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
The table leaves out 6 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
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; Drummondville shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
Questions about safety in Drummondville
Is Drummondville safe?
Drummondville measures 72.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 18 violent incidents and 19.5 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Drummondville?
Most often it is assault: 8.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 5.5 and theft under $5,000 at 5.3.
Is crime going up in Drummondville?
Hardly at all, from 74.7 in 2023 to 72.3 in 2025.
How much of Drummondville’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 49%: 63% for violent crime and 35% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Drummondville 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).