Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Huntingdon records more crime than 86% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 105.6 to 95. By contrast, its Safety Grade is D, on crime the police covering Huntingdon reported from 2023 to 2025: #498 of 503 in Quebec. Each year brought 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size). Of the two halves, violence comes to 141 and other offences to 113, 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: one figure for all of the Haut-Saint-Laurent MRC.
What stands out about safety in Huntingdon
Higher than most of Quebec
Huntingdon’s index of 120.3 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Huntingdon places 37th from the lowest index. 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 Huntingdon’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.
Its place: #498 of 503 in Quebec and #2,281 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.
What police record in Huntingdon, by type
Against the typical town its size, Huntingdon runs highest on assault (9.3 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 | 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 to 10,000 people.
Among 40 towns its size, Huntingdon places 37th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lorne Manitoba | 3,022 | 26.8 | 36.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil Quebec | 2,999 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 6 | Scott Quebec | 2,938 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 7 | Stanstead Quebec | 2,994 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 8 | Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley Quebec | 2,938 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 34 | Wawa Ontario | 2,943 | 97.9 | 182.2 | C− |
| 35 | McDougall Ontario | 3,002 | 106.9 | 196.4 | C− |
| 36 | Princeton British Columbia | 3,050 | 114.4 | 174.3 | C− |
| 37 | Huntingdon Quebec | 3,001 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| 38 | Tisdale Saskatchewan | 3,052 | 123.4 | 132.5 | D |
| 39 | Electoral Area C, Strathcona British Columbia | 2,981 | 166.3 | 162.8 | D |
| 40 | Lesser Slave River No. 124 Alberta | 2,980 | 170.9 | 107.9 | 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 Huntingdon in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
24,100 residents, about 450 violent incidents a year: the police area Huntingdon 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.
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.
Huntingdon, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 160.3; 2025 was lightest, at 95. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Huntingdon | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 160.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 105.6 | 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 Huntingdon, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Huntingdon
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntingdon | 3,001 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Godmanchester | 1,590 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Hinchinbrooke | 2,350 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Sainte-Barbe | 1,993 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka | 2,162 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Ormstown | 4,259 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Saint-Anicet | 2,854 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
5 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
- What the index measures. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Huntingdon among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
Questions about safety in Huntingdon
Is Huntingdon safe?
The short answer is an index of 120.3 for Huntingdon (2023–2025), built from 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the typical index is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Huntingdon?
Top of the list is assault (9.3 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 7.6, and fraud, at 4, follow.
Is crime going up in Huntingdon?
Down 10%: 105.6 in 2023, 95 in 2025.
How much of Huntingdon’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 71% of violent crime and 20% of everything else, 38% 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 Huntingdon 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).