Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Girardville records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index averaged 68.9 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Annual rates stand at 17.1 violent incidents and 17.6 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Overall, Girardville grades C+ for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. The index held steady between 2023 (69.9) and 2025 (66.5).
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 Maria-Chapdelaine MRC.
What stands out about safety in Girardville
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 59% of crime in Girardville ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 71% of violent crime and 49% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Girardville’s index of 68.9 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 107.3 on Girardville’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 54.1 against 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 Girardville’s C+
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.
Girardville, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 70.3, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 66.5. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Girardville | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66.5 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 70.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 69.9 | 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 Girardville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Girardville’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Girardville runs highest on assault (7.8 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 20.7 | 0.8 | 76% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.3 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 21.3 | 0.9 | 62% |
| Breaking and entering | 76.7 | 3.2 | 42% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 59.7 | 2.5 | 33% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8 | 0.3 | 25% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 97 | 4 | 45% |
| Mischief | 59.3 | 2.4 | 34% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 0.3 | 81% |
| Administration of justice violations | 69 | 2.8 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9.3 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 25.3 | 1 | 82% |
| Impaired driving | 39.3 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 45 | 1.8 | 19% |
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.
The police area Girardville is part of, 24,300 residents, recorded about 420 violent incidents a year (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 430 property crimes and 220 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 Girardville
The comparison skips 2 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Girardville shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- The clearance rate. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
Questions about safety in Girardville
Is Girardville safe?
Police-reported crime in Girardville scores 68.9 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 17.1 violent incidents and 17.6 property crimes 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 Girardville?
Most often it is assault: 7.8 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 4.2 and theft under $5,000 at 4.
Is crime going up in Girardville?
Barely: 69.9 in 2023, 66.5 in 2025.
How much of Girardville’s crime do police solve?
About 59% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 71% of violent and 49% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Girardville 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).