Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Dudswell runs lower than in 67% of Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 50.5 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Per 1,000 residents a year, 12.1 violent incidents and 11.6 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Still, on the record of crime the police covering Dudswell reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes B+ for safety.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Haut-Saint-François MRC.
What stands out about safety in Dudswell
Down since 2023
Dudswell’s index went from 55.3 in 2023 to 44.4 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 47% of Dudswell’s crime, weighted by seriousness (60% of violent crime, 35% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 50.5 in Dudswell. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Dudswell’s two halves part ways: 89.1 for violence (typical 86.4) and 35.5 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Dudswell’s B+
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.
Dudswell’s index fell 20% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 55.3, against a low of 44.4 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 | Dudswell | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 51.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.3 | 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 Dudswell, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Dudswell’s crime by kind
Assault and fraud sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 25.3 | 1.1 | 38% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 8.7 | 0.4 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 49.7 | 2.1 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 29.3 | 1.2 | 19% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 27% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 43.7 | 1.8 | 31% |
| Mischief | 46.7 | 2 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.2 | 70% |
| Administration of justice violations | 33.7 | 1.4 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 17.3 | 0.7 | 68% |
| Impaired driving | 34.3 | 1.4 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 20 | 0.8 | 22% |
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.
Around 290 violent incidents a year in the 24,300-resident police area around Dudswell, 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 280 property crimes and 130 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 Dudswell
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dudswell | 1,850 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| Weedon | 2,845 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| Bury | 1,243 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| East Angus | 4,261 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| Westbury | 1,207 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
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
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Dudswell among them.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Dudswell
Is Dudswell safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Dudswell scores 50.5 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 12.1 violent and 11.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Dudswell?
The three biggest groups are assault at 5.7, fraud at 3.8 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 2.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Dudswell?
Down 20%: 55.3 in 2023, 44.4 in 2025.
How much of Dudswell’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 47%: 60% for violent crime and 35% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Dudswell 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).