Photo: Jée-zus · CC BY-SA 3.0Kingsey Falls has less crime per resident than 61% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 54.6 to 51.6. What’s more, that puts it at B for safety, judged on crime the police covering Kingsey Falls reported from 2023 to 2025. The local count comes to 14.7 violent incidents and 16.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 55 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for 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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Arthabaska MRC).
What stands out about safety in Kingsey Falls
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 50% of crime in Kingsey Falls ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 65% of violent crime and 37% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 55 in Kingsey Falls. Towns its size ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 86.5 on Kingsey Falls’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 42.9 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.
Inside Kingsey Falls’s B for safety
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 Kingsey Falls’s figures
Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 56.7 | 0.7 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 21 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.07 | 89% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 11.3 | 0.1 | 91% |
| Other violent violations | 29 | 0.4 | 63% |
| Breaking and entering | 125.7 | 1.6 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.3 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 111.7 | 1.4 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 24 | 0.3 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 383.7 | 5 | 44% |
| Mischief | 177 | 2.3 | 31% |
| Weapons violations | 14.3 | 0.2 | 89% |
| Administration of justice violations | 228.3 | 3 | 82% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 26 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Drug violations | 88.3 | 1.1 | 76% |
| Impaired driving | 158.3 | 2.1 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 149 | 1.9 | 9% |
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.
Kingsey Falls, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 58.8; 2025 was the lightest, at 51.6. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Kingsey Falls | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 58.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 54.6 | 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 Kingsey Falls, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Kingsey Falls is part of, 77,600 residents, recorded about 1,130 violent incidents a year (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 1,250 a year and other violations 710 (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 Kingsey Falls
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsey Falls | 2,072 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Tingwick | 1,567 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Danville | 3,944 | 72.6 | 127.5 | C+ |
| Warwick | 4,939 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey | 1,550 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Val-des-Sources | 7,303 | 72.6 | 127.5 | C+ |
| Saint-Albert | 1,744 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Kingsey Falls. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 3 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Kingsey Falls 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.
Questions about safety in Kingsey Falls
Is Kingsey Falls safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Kingsey Falls’s Crime Severity Index stands at 55 for 2023–2025. Its police record 14.7 violent incidents and 16.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Kingsey Falls?
Assault is the most common, at 7.1 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (5.1) and theft under $5,000 (5).
Is crime going up in Kingsey Falls?
It went down 6% between 2023 and 2025, from 54.6 to 51.6.
How much of Kingsey Falls’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 65% of violent crime and 37% of everything else, 50% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Kingsey Falls 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).