Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Grenville has more crime per resident than 64% of Canadian towns
Its letter for safety is C+, worked out from crime the police covering Grenville reported over 2023 to 2025. Recorded violent incidents ran at 20.6 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 20.0, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 76.4 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 82.9 to 74.1.
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 Argenteuil MRC.
What stands out about safety in Grenville
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Grenville (65% violent, 36% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Over the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Grenville scores 76.4. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on violence
Grenville scores 122.2 for violence and 58.8 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 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.
Grenville: C+ 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.
Crime in Grenville, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Grenville runs highest on assault (9.9 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 23.7 | 0.6 | 72% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 16.7 | 0.4 | 96% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.7 | 0.2 | 40% |
| Robbery | 3.7 | 0.10 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 11 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Other violent violations | 42.3 | 1.1 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 108 | 2.9 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 13.3 | 0.4 | 77% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 90.3 | 2.4 | 18% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 27.7 | 0.7 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 200 | 5.3 | 34% |
| Mischief | 102 | 2.7 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 11 | 0.3 | 82% |
| Administration of justice violations | 124.3 | 3.3 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 20.3 | 0.5 | 74% |
| Drug violations | 53.3 | 1.4 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 90.7 | 2.4 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 68 | 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.
Grenville, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (82.9); 2024 was the lightest, at 72.3. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Grenville | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 72.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 82.9 | 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 Grenville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
38,500 residents, about 780 violent incidents a year: the police area Grenville belongs to, 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 750 property crimes and 420 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 Grenville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grenville | 1,889 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| Hawkesbury | 11,451 | 92.7 | 131.7 | C |
| Grenville-sur-la-Rouge | 3,040 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| Vankleek Hill | 9,321 | 44.6 | 56.6 | A− |
| East Hawkesbury | 3,787 | 70.8 | 123.5 | C+ |
| Brownsburg-Chatham | 8,466 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
2 of the 3 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Grenville. Just 8.3 km away, Vankleek Hill comes to 44.6, against 76.4. 2 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Grenville shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Grenville
Is Grenville safe?
Police-reported crime in Grenville scores 76.4 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 20.6 violent incidents and 20 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Grenville?
Most often it is assault: 9.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 5.3 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 5.2.
Is crime going up in Grenville?
The reverse: 82.9 in 2023 came down to 74.1 by 2025, 11% lower.
How much of Grenville’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 49% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 65% of violent crime and 36% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Grenville 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).