Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Hatley than in 84% of Canadian towns
Graded on crime the police covering Hatley reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores A− for safety: #73 of 503 in Quebec. About 40% of crime here is cleared by police, set against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size. Recorded violent incidents ran at 8.2 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 7.9, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Of the two halves, violence comes to 58.3 and other offences to 32.9, beside norms of 85.7 and 62.8.
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: the Memphrémagog MRC.
What stands out about safety in Hatley
Lighter than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Hatley moved from 45.1 to 34.8, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Hatley places 8th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Below Quebec’s typical town
Hatley’s index of 39.9 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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 sits behind Hatley’s A−
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.
Its place: #73 of 503 in Quebec and #306 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
In Hatley, down 23% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
From 45.1 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 34.8 in 2025. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Hatley | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34.8 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 39.9 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 45.1 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Hatley, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in Hatley, type by type
Assault and fraud sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 11 | 0.6 | 48% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 32.3 | 1.8 | 16% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13 | 0.7 | 2% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.7 | 0.4 | 10% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 21.7 | 1.2 | 23% |
| Mischief | 23.3 | 1.3 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 15.3 | 0.8 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11 | 0.6 | 27% |
| Drug violations | 9.3 | 0.5 | 29% |
| Impaired driving | 25.7 | 1.4 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 13.3 | 0.7 | 10% |
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 to 10,000 people.
Hatley comes 8th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonfield Ontario | 2,597 | 24.3 | 39.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Fossambault-sur-le-Lac Quebec | 2,505 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 5 | Magrath Alberta | 2,566 | 36.6 | 46.2 | A |
| 6 | Anmore British Columbia | 2,508 | 38.4 | 34.2 | A |
| 7 | Saint-Polycarpe Quebec | 2,549 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 8 | Hatley Quebec | 2,512 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 9 | Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards Ontario | 2,505 | 41.5 | 77.6 | A− |
| 10 | Saint-Mathieu Quebec | 2,642 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 11 | Outlook Saskatchewan | 2,629 | 42 | 39.6 | A− |
| 12 | Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska Quebec | 2,509 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| 13 | Sainte-Croix Quebec | 2,612 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| 14 | Waterville Quebec | 2,643 | 44.5 | 81.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | High Prairie Alberta | 2,607 | 334.5 | 521.9 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Hatley in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 150 violent incidents a year across the police area of 18,800 residents that includes Hatley, 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 150 property crimes and 210 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 Hatley
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatley | 2,512 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| Waterville | 2,643 | 44.5 | 81.6 | A− |
| Sherbrooke | 184,135 | 54.6 | 85.1 | B |
| Compton | 3,351 | 44.5 | 81.6 | A− |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley | 2,938 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| Ascot Corner | 3,725 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| Stoke | 3,272 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Hatley. The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Hatley shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Hatley
Is Hatley safe?
With 8.2 violent incidents and 7.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Hatley comes to 39.9 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people have a median of 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Hatley?
The three biggest groups are assault at 3.6, fraud at 2.4 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 2.3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Hatley?
It went down 23% between 2023 and 2025, from 45.1 to 34.8.
How much of Hatley’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 59% of violent crime and 26% of everything else, 40% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Hatley 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).