Photo: Richard Mc Neil · CC BY 3.0For recorded crime, Pont-Viau sits in the middle of Canadian towns
By 2025 the index had dropped to 52.9, down from 57.2 in 2023. Of the two halves, violence comes to 82.7 and other offences to 45.9, beside norms of 75.2 and 54.2. Taking everything together, Pont-Viau scores B (#242 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 12.3 violent incidents and 17.1 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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 and crime rate: one figure for all of the Laval service area.
What’s behind Pont-Viau’s grade
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Pont-Viau can differ a long way from its city’s average.
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: #242 of 503 in Quebec and #736 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Laval’s crime, type by type
These are Laval’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Laval runs highest on drug offences (2.1 per 1,000 against 0.9), assault (6.5 per 1,000 against 4.9) and motor vehicle theft (2 per 1,000 against 1.7). Theft under $5,000 and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 4.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 92 | 0.2 | 47% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 163.3 | 0.4 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 30.3 | 0.07 | 35% |
| Robbery | 194 | 0.4 | 44% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 44.7 | 0.10 | 82% |
| Other violent violations | 120 | 0.3 | 66% |
| Breaking and entering | 665.3 | 1.5 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 164.3 | 0.4 | 66% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 919.3 | 2 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 176 | 0.4 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 3,063.3 | 6.7 | 27% |
| Mischief | 922.7 | 2 | 19% |
| Weapons violations | 184 | 0.4 | 71% |
| Administration of justice violations | 1,363.7 | 3 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 313.7 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 971.7 | 2.1 | 61% |
| Impaired driving | 400 | 0.9 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1,053.7 | 2.3 | 15% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
Pont-Viau, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 58.1, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 52.9. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Pont-Viau | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52.9 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 58.1 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 57.2 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Pont-Viau, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Pont-Viau
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pont-Viau | 14,608 | 56.1 | 82.7 | B |
| Laval-des-Rapides | 41,971 | 56.1 | 82.7 | B |
| Sault-au-Récollet | 25,464 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| La Visitation | 17,166 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Nicolas-Viel | 19,361 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Ouest (Montréal-Nord) | 23,373 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Saint-Sulpice | 18,557 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
Pont-Viau has the lowest index of the places around it. The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole city’s numbers. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Pont-Viau carries the city-wide figures.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Pont-Viau
Is Pont-Viau safe?
Pont-Viau measures 56.1 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 12.3 violent incidents and 17.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Pont-Viau?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 6.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (6.5) and other Criminal Code offences (4.5).
Is crime going up in Pont-Viau?
The reverse: 57.2 in 2023 came down to 52.9 by 2025, 8% lower.
How much of Pont-Viau’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 60% of violent crime and 31% of everything else, 43% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police service that covers the whole city.
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).