Photo: Wilfredor · CC0Per resident, Lévis records less crime than nine in ten Canadian towns
Violence and property crime split as 8.2 violent incidents and 9.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical town its size. Of the two halves, violence comes to 57.5 and other offences to 25.6, beside norms of 75.2 and 54.2. Counting crime the police covering Lévis reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A for safety: #23 of 503 in Quebec. None of the 6 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident.
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.
What stands out about safety in Lévis
Lower than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Lévis scores 34.5. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Lévis is 3rd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 54% of Lévis’s crime, weighted by seriousness (76% of violent crime, 36% of the rest), against 38% across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Lévis’s two halves part ways: 57.5 for violence (typical 75.2) and 25.6 for the rest (typical 54.2). By type ↓
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 Lévis’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: #23 of 503 in Quebec and #174 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.
Lévis’s crime by kind
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.00 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 54.3 | 0.3 | 66% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 84.7 | 0.5 | 89% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 6 | 0.04 | 67% |
| Robbery | 18.7 | 0.1 | 71% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 17.3 | 0.1 | 92% |
| Other violent violations | 41 | 0.3 | 91% |
| Breaking and entering | 150.3 | 1 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5 | 0.03 | 74% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 97.7 | 0.6 | 24% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 40.3 | 0.3 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 389.3 | 2.5 | 33% |
| Mischief | 193 | 1.2 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 30.3 | 0.2 | 62% |
| Administration of justice violations | 336.3 | 2.1 | 93% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 61.3 | 0.4 | 64% |
| Drug violations | 149.3 | 0.9 | 77% |
| Impaired driving | 177 | 1.1 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 134 | 0.8 | 18% |
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 50,000 people or more.
Lévis is 3rd of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burlington Ontario | 197,737 | 31.4 | 28.3 | A |
| 2 | Milton Ontario | 157,345 | 31.4 | 28.3 | A |
| 3 | Lévis Quebec | 160,882 | 34.5 | 57.5 | A |
| 4 | Saanich British Columbia | 126,011 | 40.5 | 49.7 | A− |
| 5 | Terrebonne Quebec | 126,872 | 41.6 | 72.5 | A− |
| 6 | Cape Breton Nova Scotia | 106,752 | 44 | 56.2 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Saguenay Quebec | 151,972 | 53.3 | 87.4 | B+ |
| 13 | Sherbrooke Quebec | 184,135 | 54.6 | 85.1 | B |
| … | |||||
| 20 | Trois-Rivières Quebec | 149,934 | 61.5 | 93.7 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Victoria British Columbia | 103,888 | 161.3 | 160.1 | 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 Lévis in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Police in Lévis recorded about 1,300 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 1,450 a year and other violations 950 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
In Lévis, up 11% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 36.8, with 2023 the lightest at 31.7. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lévis | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 36.8 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 31.7 | 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 Lévis, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Lévis
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lévis | 160,882 | 34.5 | 57.5 | A |
| Sillery | 13,950 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Louis | 15,792 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Sacrement | 10,650 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Montcalm | 13,572 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Cité-Universitaire | 22,546 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Jean-Baptiste | 8,882 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
The places around Lévis all score higher on the index.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Lévis
Is Lévis safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Lévis scores 34.5 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 8.2 violent and 9.2 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 60.3, the median for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Lévis?
Most often it is assault: 4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 3.5 and other Criminal Code offences at 2.8.
Is crime going up in Lévis?
It went up 11% between 2023 and 2025, from 31.7 to 35.
How much of Lévis’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 54% of crime (76% of violent crime, 36% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 38%.
Whose figures are these?
They are Lévis’s own: its police cover the town and no other.
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).