Photo: Yannick Malouin · CC BY-SA 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Franklin than in 86% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 141 and 113. Its police logs show 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2. On top of that, that puts it at D for safety, judged on crime the police covering Franklin reported from 2023 to 2025. In 2023 the index stood at 105.6; it fell to 95 in 2025.
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 Haut-Saint-Laurent MRC.
What stands out about safety in Franklin
Above Quebec’s typical town
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Franklin scores 120.3. 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.
Inside Franklin’s D for safety
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.
Around 450 violent incidents a year in the 24,100-resident police area around Franklin, 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 310 property crimes and 930 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Franklin, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 160.3, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 95. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Franklin | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 160.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 105.6 | 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 Franklin, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Franklin’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Franklin runs highest on assault (9.3 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 25 | 1.1 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.2 | 86% |
| Other violent violations | 11 | 0.5 | 66% |
| Breaking and entering | 49 | 2.1 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.3 | 0.4 | 35% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 37.7 | 1.6 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10.3 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 44 | 1.9 | 36% |
| Mischief | 57.7 | 2.4 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 14.3 | 0.6 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 70.7 | 3 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 86.7 | 3.7 | 20% |
| Drug violations | 33.3 | 1.4 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 48.3 | 2.1 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 29 | 1.2 | 28% |
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.
Crime in the places around Franklin
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin | 1,754 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Ormstown | 4,259 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Saint-Chrysostome | 2,641 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Hinchinbrooke | 2,350 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Très-Saint-Sacrement | 1,223 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
Same police, same number: 4 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Franklin among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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 Franklin
Is Franklin safe?
Franklin’s Crime Severity Index is 120.3 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Franklin?
Assault is the most common, at 9.3 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (7.6) and fraud (4).
Is crime going up in Franklin?
No: the index fell 10%, from 105.6 in 2023 to 95 in 2025.
How much of Franklin’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 38% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 71% of violent crime and 20% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Franklin 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).