Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Hinchinbrooke sees more crime per resident than 86% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 141 and other offences for 113, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Counting crime the police covering Hinchinbrooke reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety. On top of that, in a usual year, 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. By 2025 the index had dropped to 95, down from 105.6 in 2023.
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: one figure for all of the Haut-Saint-Laurent MRC.
What stands out about safety in Hinchinbrooke
Higher than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Hinchinbrooke scores 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.
What’s behind Hinchinbrooke’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 Hinchinbrooke’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Hinchinbrooke runs highest on assault (9.3 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud and mischief sit 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.
About 450 violent incidents a year across the police area of 24,100 residents that includes Hinchinbrooke, 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.
Hinchinbrooke, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 160.3, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in 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 | Hinchinbrooke | 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 Hinchinbrooke, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Hinchinbrooke
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hinchinbrooke | 2,350 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Huntingdon | 3,001 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Godmanchester | 1,590 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Ormstown | 4,259 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Franklin | 1,754 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
4 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
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Hinchinbrooke alone.
- 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. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Hinchinbrooke
Is Hinchinbrooke safe?
Statistics Canada puts Hinchinbrooke at 120.3 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 18.8 and property crimes at 13.1 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Hinchinbrooke?
Assault is the most common, at 9.3 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (7.6) and fraud (4).
Is crime going up in Hinchinbrooke?
Down 10%: 105.6 in 2023, 95 in 2025.
How much of Hinchinbrooke’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 shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Hinchinbrooke and everywhere else it polices.
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).