Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Hérouxville records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
The index fell from 55.4 in 2023 to 48.7 in 2025. Among its 3 neighbours with figures, 2 record less crime per resident. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Hérouxville at B: close to the middle of Canadian towns. The yearly rates were 13.0 violent incidents and 15.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 Mékinac MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Hérouxville
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Hérouxville’s police clear 49%, 74% of violent crime and 34% of the rest. Questions ↓
Near the Quebec middle
Hérouxville’s index of 56.3 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.
Hérouxville: B 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.
Hérouxville, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 64.9, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 48.7. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Hérouxville | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 64.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.4 | 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 Hérouxville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Hérouxville, by type
Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 9 | 0.7 | 81% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.7 | 0.6 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 41.3 | 3.2 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 32.3 | 2.5 | 3% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 0.6 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39.7 | 3 | 42% |
| Mischief | 31.3 | 2.4 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 41.3 | 3.2 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 12 | 0.9 | 81% |
| Impaired driving | 22 | 1.7 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 14.7 | 1.1 | 2% |
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.
13,200 residents, about 170 violent incidents a year: the police area Hérouxville 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.
Property crime adds about 210 a year and other violations 110 (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 Hérouxville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hérouxville | 1,570 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Saint-Tite | 3,759 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Shawinigan | 51,739 | 76 | 113.4 | C+ |
| Saint-Narcisse | 1,848 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Stanislas | 1,040 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
Of 3 places nearby with their own figures, 2 come in under Hérouxville. The nearest of them, Saint-Narcisse (15.7 km away), scores 39.2 against 56.3. One nearby place has 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
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Hérouxville shares it with its neighbours.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Hérouxville
Is Hérouxville safe?
Hérouxville’s Crime Severity Index is 56.3 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 13 violent incidents and 15.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Hérouxville?
Police record assault most, 6.1 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (3.9) and fraud (3.8).
Is crime going up in Hérouxville?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 12%, to 48.7 from 55.4.
How much of Hérouxville’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 49% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 74% of violent crime and 34% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Hérouxville 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).