Photo: Edgar Gariépy · Public domainCrime per resident in Mascouche runs lower than in 76% of Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 45.7, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 60.3 for the typical Canadian town its size. Add to that, the grade is A−, built on crime the police covering Mascouche reported from 2023 to 2025: #124 of 503 in Quebec. Annual rates stand at 11.7 violent incidents and 13.7 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical town its size. Next door, 2 of 6 towns with figures record 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 Mascouche
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 56% for Mascouche (76% violent, 37% non-violent), beside 38% for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Mascouche is 11th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Mascouche scores 45.7. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
Mascouche scores 79.3 for violence and 32.7 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 75.2 and 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 Mascouche’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: #124 of 503 in Quebec and #415 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.
Crime in Mascouche, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Mascouche runs highest on assault (5.7 per 1,000 against 4.9) and sexual assault (0.9 per 1,000 against 0.8). 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 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 24.3 | 0.4 | 62% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5 | 0.09 | 100% |
| Robbery | 11.3 | 0.2 | 53% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 8.3 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 11.7 | 0.2 | 79% |
| Breaking and entering | 54 | 1 | 30% |
| Possession of stolen property | 6.7 | 0.1 | 64% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 74.7 | 1.3 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 14.3 | 0.3 | 21% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 244.3 | 4.4 | 38% |
| Mischief | 90.7 | 1.6 | 37% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 0.1 | 76% |
| Administration of justice violations | 89.7 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16.3 | 0.3 | 80% |
| Drug violations | 22.7 | 0.4 | 91% |
| Impaired driving | 69 | 1.2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 79.7 | 1.4 | 27% |
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.
By its index, Mascouche stands 11th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakeshore Ontario | 45,954 | 26.8 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Blainville Quebec | 61,739 | 34.9 | 41.4 | A |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Caledonia Ontario | 56,059 | 37.2 | 37.5 | A |
| 9 | Vaudreuil-Dorion Quebec | 46,413 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 10 | Rimouski Quebec | 51,756 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| 11 | Mascouche Quebec | 56,897 | 45.7 | 79.3 | A− |
| 12 | Saint-Hyacinthe Quebec | 60,874 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| 13 | Mirabel Quebec | 68,471 | 50.1 | 57.3 | B+ |
| 14 | Châteauguay Quebec | 53,508 | 50.6 | 85.7 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Victoriaville Quebec | 49,863 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| 20 | Saint-Eustache Quebec | 47,562 | 55.4 | 78.9 | B |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Salaberry-de-Valleyfield Quebec | 47,002 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Vernon British Columbia | 49,527 | 145.1 | 141.2 | 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 Mascouche in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Mascouche’s police: about 660 violent incidents a year over 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 770 property crimes, plus 310 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
In Mascouche, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (47); 2024 was the lightest, at 44.7. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Mascouche | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.5 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 44.7 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 47 | 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 Mascouche, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Mascouche
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mascouche | 56,897 | 45.7 | 79.3 | A− |
| Terrebonne | 126,872 | 41.6 | 72.5 | A− |
| Saint-François | 15,338 | 56.1 | 82.7 | B |
| Charlemagne | 6,695 | 28.1 | 48.2 | A+ |
| Rivière-des-Prairies | 21,852 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Marc-Aurèle-Fortin | 36,220 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan | 5,675 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
2 of the 6 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Mascouche. Terrebonne, 4.3 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 41.6 to 45.7.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- Reading the number. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Mascouche
Is Mascouche safe?
The short answer is an index of 45.7 for Mascouche (2023–2025), built from 11.7 violent incidents and 13.7 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the typical index is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Mascouche?
Top of the list is assault (5.7 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 4.9, and theft under $5,000, at 4.4, follow.
Is crime going up in Mascouche?
Barely: 47 in 2023, 45.5 in 2025.
How much of Mascouche’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 56% of crime (76% of violent crime, 37% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 38%.
Whose figures are these?
They are Mascouche’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).