Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime in Durham-Sud is close to typical for Canadian towns
Each of the 4 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident. Behind the grade sit 18.0 violent incidents and 19.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Add to that, its Safety Grade, C+, rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 72.2 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2.
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 Drummond MRC.
What stands out about safety in Durham-Sud
Violent crime leads the index
Durham-Sud scores 124.7 for violence and 51.8 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Durham-Sud (63% violent, 35% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Over the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 72.2 in Durham-Sud. 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 Durham-Sud’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.
Crime in Durham-Sud, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Durham-Sud runs highest on assault (8.9 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits 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 2,500 people or more.
Year by year in Durham-Sud: 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 of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Durham-Sud | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 69.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 74.7 | 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 Durham-Sud, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 2,050 violent incidents a year in the 115,700-resident police area around Durham-Sud, 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.
Crime in the places around Durham-Sud
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Durham-Sud. Closest is Melbourne, 12.3 km away, at 45 to 72.2 here. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “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, Durham-Sud among them.
Questions about safety in Durham-Sud
Is Durham-Sud safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Durham-Sud scores 72.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 18 violent and 19.5 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Durham-Sud?
Top of the list is assault (8.9 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 5.5, and theft under $5,000, at 5.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Durham-Sud?
Barely: 74.7 in 2023, 72.3 in 2025.
How much of Durham-Sud’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 63% of violent crime and 35% of everything else, 49% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Durham-Sud 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).