Photo: CanadianPhotographer · CC0Crime in Montréal scores 33% higher than in the typical Canadian town its size
Montréal doesn’t get its own crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures; the ones here come from the Montréal service area. Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 81.4 to 78.4. Its violent half comes to 115.7 and its non-violent half to 66.9, where the norm is 75.2 and 54.2. The local count comes to 15.4 violent incidents and 29.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical town its size.
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 Montréal
Robbery: high for a town its size
Montréal records 1.1 incidents of robbery per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.4 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. By type ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Montréal scores 80.3. 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 Montréal’s grade will weigh
The letter is still to come: Canada is being graded in one run, once every data set is checked.
Crime Severity Index
Violent crime index
Non-violent crime index
Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, 2023–2025 means. City neighbourhoods count, each with its city’s figure; city totals and reserves don’t.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What police record in Montréal, by type
Against the typical town its size, Montréal runs highest on robbery (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.4), motor vehicle theft (4.3 per 1,000 against 1.7) and assault (8.2 per 1,000 against 4.9). Mischief sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 32 | 0.02 | 65% |
| Sexual violations against children | 412.3 | 0.2 | 40% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 932.7 | 0.4 | 92% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 210.3 | 0.10 | 38% |
| Robbery | 2,329.3 | 1.1 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 371 | 0.2 | 74% |
| Other violent violations | 732.7 | 0.3 | 41% |
| Breaking and entering | 6,567 | 3.1 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 667 | 0.3 | 66% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 9,140 | 4.3 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1,353 | 0.6 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25,416 | 11.8 | 17% |
| Mischief | 6,913.3 | 3.2 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 510 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Administration of justice violations | 6,916.3 | 3.2 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1,578.7 | 0.7 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 2,470.7 | 1.2 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 1,728 | 0.8 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6,866.3 | 3.2 | 8% |
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.
Montréal, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 81.4 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 78.4. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Montréal | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78.4 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 81.2 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 81.4 | 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 Montréal, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 33,000 violent incidents a year in the 2,172,300-resident police area around Montréal, 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 62,300 a year and other violations 22,100 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Montréal’s neighbourhoods, side by side
Montréal’s police publish no assaults by neighbourhood. What Montréal shows is property crime and robbery; it is not a measure of violence, high or low.
Montréal’s neighbourhoods, lowest rate first
| # | Neighbourhood | Property | Robbery |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ile-des-Soeurs | 4.4 | 0.1 |
| 2 | René-Goupil | 5.4 | 0.2 |
| 3 | L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève | 5.8 | 0.2 |
| 4 | Sault-Saint-Louis | 6.2 | 0.4 |
| 5 | Pierrefonds-Est | 6.6 | 0.4 |
| … | |||
| 73 | Saint-Henri | 24.5 | 2 |
| 74 | Hochelaga | 26 | 1.4 |
| 75 | Saint-Louis | 34.9 | 1.1 |
| 76 | Vieux-Montréal | 55.7 | 0.9 |
| 77 | René-Lévesque | 69.2 | 6.3 |
SPVM, Actes criminels (CC BY 4.0, Ville de Montréal), 2023–2025, placed in the quartiers: vehicle theft, theft from vehicles, mischief, break and enter (property) and robbery. Points are moved to an intersection by the SPVM.
The SPVM’s neighbourhood figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025: property crime and robbery only.
Crime in the places around Montréal
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montréal | 1,915,366 | 80.3 | 115.7 | — |
| Saint-Édouard | 16,771 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Parc-Jarry | 15,699 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Parc-Extension | 29,066 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Crémazie | 29,907 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Père-Marquette | 19,702 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Outremont | 24,629 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
The comparison skips 6 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- 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 policing. Montréal is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
- 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 Montréal
Is Montréal safe?
Against a typical 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, Montréal’s Crime Severity Index stands at 80.3 for 2023–2025. Its police record 15.4 violent incidents and 29.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Montréal?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 11.8 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (8.2) and fraud (5.4).
Is crime going up in Montréal?
Barely: 81.4 in 2023, 78.4 in 2025.
How much of Montréal’s crime do police solve?
About 32% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 49% of violent and 21% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Montréal together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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). 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).