Photo: Laurent Bélanger · CC BY-SA 4.0Hemmingford sees more crime per resident than 85% of Canadian towns
That puts it at C− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Hemmingford reported from 2023 to 2025. By contrast, by 2025 the index had dropped to 86.1, down from 101.1 in 2023. Violence accounts for an index of 80.3 and other offences for 131.9, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Police counts work out at 12.3 violent incidents and 11.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2.
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 Jardins de Napierville MRC.
What stands out about safety in Hemmingford
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Hemmingford records 7.8 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Over the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Hemmingford scores 116.5. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 80.3 on Hemmingford’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 131.9 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’s behind Hemmingford’s grade
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.
Which crimes make up Hemmingford’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Hemmingford runs highest on Cannabis Act offences (5.8 per 1,000 against 0.05) and drug offences (7.8 per 1,000 against 0.7). Fraud 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 | 25 | 0.8 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.3 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6.7 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Breaking and entering | 41 | 1.3 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 12.3 | 0.4 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 48.7 | 1.5 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18.7 | 0.6 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 73 | 2.3 | 30% |
| Mischief | 59.3 | 1.8 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 0.2 | 80% |
| Administration of justice violations | 55.7 | 1.7 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 206 | 6.4 | 8% |
| Drug violations | 253 | 7.8 | 14% |
| Impaired driving | 67.7 | 2.1 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 40.7 | 1.3 | 15% |
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.
Hemmingford, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 162.2; 2025 was the lightest, at 86.1. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Hemmingford | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 162.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 101.1 | 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 Hemmingford, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 400 violent incidents a year in the 32,600-resident police area around Hemmingford, 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.
Property crime adds about 380 a year and other violations 1,800 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Hemmingford
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hemmingford | 2,206 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Sainte-Clotilde | 3,297 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle | 1,655 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Chrysostome | 2,641 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington | 1,996 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Édouard | 1,438 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville | 1,786 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
Its police also cover 5 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Hemmingford shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Hemmingford
Is Hemmingford safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Hemmingford scores 116.5 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 12.3 violent and 11.8 property incidents 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 Hemmingford?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 8.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of drug offences (7.8) and assault (6.2).
Is crime going up in Hemmingford?
No: the index fell 15%, from 101.1 in 2023 to 86.1 in 2025.
How much of Hemmingford’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 38%: 69% for violent crime and 30% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Hemmingford 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).