Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime in Montpellier sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 61.7 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. In 2023 the index stood at 55.7; it rose to 63.1 in 2025. Taking everything together, Montpellier scores B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Typical years here bring 17.5 violent incidents plus 13.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 31.2 in 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Papineau MRC.
What stands out about safety in Montpellier
More people here than live here
With 38% of its homes not lived in all year, Montpellier counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 60% for Montpellier (79% violent, 41% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Montpellier scores 107.3 for violence and 44 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
About the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Montpellier, 61.7. 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 Montpellier’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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Montpellier, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 66.2 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 55.7 in 2023. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Montpellier | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 66.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.7 | 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 Montpellier, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Montpellier, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Montpellier runs highest on assault (8.6 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14.7 | 0.5 | 88% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.7 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.7 | 58% |
| Breaking and entering | 66.7 | 2.5 | 39% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.7 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 56.7 | 2.1 | 28% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18 | 0.7 | 22% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 56 | 2.1 | 34% |
| Mischief | 65.7 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 9.7 | 0.4 | 69% |
| Administration of justice violations | 62 | 2.3 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 31 | 1.1 | 65% |
| Impaired driving | 49 | 1.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 23.7 | 0.9 | 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 people or more.
Around 470 violent incidents a year in the 27,100-resident police area around Montpellier, 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 370 property crimes, plus 220 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Montpellier
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montpellier | 1,253 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Lac-Simon | 1,159 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Ripon | 1,835 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Saint-André-Avellin | 3,862 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 3 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Montpellier among them.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Montpellier
Is Montpellier safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Montpellier scores 61.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 17.5 violent and 13.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Montpellier?
The three biggest groups are assault at 8.6, Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.7 and fraud at 3.4, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Montpellier?
Yes: the index rose 13%, from 55.7 in 2023 to 63.1 in 2025.
How much of Montpellier’s crime do police solve?
60%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 79% and non-violent crime at 41%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Montpellier and everywhere else it polices.
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).