Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Godmanchester records more crime than 86% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 141 for violence and 113 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Its Safety Grade is D, on crime the police covering Godmanchester reported from 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 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+. By contrast, 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Haut-Saint-Laurent MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Godmanchester
Above Quebec’s typical town
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Godmanchester, 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.
Godmanchester: D for safety, and why
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.
About 450 violent incidents a year across the police area of 24,100 residents that includes Godmanchester, 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 310 property crimes, plus 930 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Godmanchester, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 160.3; 2025 was the lightest, at 95. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Godmanchester | 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 Godmanchester, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Godmanchester’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Godmanchester 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 Godmanchester
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Godmanchester | 1,590 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Huntingdon | 3,001 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Sainte-Barbe | 1,993 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka | 2,162 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Hinchinbrooke | 2,350 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Saint-Anicet | 2,854 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Ormstown | 4,259 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 5 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 whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Godmanchester alone.
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
Questions about safety in Godmanchester
Is Godmanchester safe?
With 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Godmanchester comes to 120.3 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Godmanchester?
Top of the list is assault (9.3 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 7.6, and fraud, at 4, follow.
Is crime going up in Godmanchester?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 10%, to 95 from 105.6.
How much of Godmanchester’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?
A police service or detachment that covers Godmanchester 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).