Photo: Pierre Bona · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime in Noyan is close to typical for Canadian towns
Recorded violent incidents ran at 13.3 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 12.5, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 62.8 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. All told, Noyan grades B− for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025.
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, crime rate and incident counts published for the Haut-Richelieu MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Noyan
More severe than in 2023
From 54 in 2023 to 71 in 2025: that is Noyan’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Noyan’s police clear 44%, 69% of violent crime and 30% of the rest. Questions ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Noyan, 62.8. 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.
Noyan: B− for safety, and why
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Noyan’s index climbed 32%
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 71, and 2023 lowest at 54. 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 | Noyan | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 63.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 54 | 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 Noyan, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Noyan, by type
Against the typical town its size, Noyan runs highest on drug offences (3.4 per 1,000 against 0.7). Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 19 | 0.8 | 51% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Breaking and entering | 33.3 | 1.4 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.3 | 59% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 40 | 1.6 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.7 | 0.5 | 47% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 50 | 2 | 31% |
| Mischief | 55 | 2.2 | 31% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 62 | 2.5 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 31 | 1.3 | 23% |
| Drug violations | 84 | 3.4 | 17% |
| Impaired driving | 44.3 | 1.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 23 | 0.9 | 20% |
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.
About 330 violent incidents a year across the police area of 24,900 residents that includes Noyan, 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.
Add about 310 property crimes and 340 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Noyan
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noyan | 1,576 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Lacolle | 2,806 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix | 2,321 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville | 1,274 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Venise-en-Québec | 2,252 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle | 1,655 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Henryville | 1,664 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
5 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- 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.”
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Noyan shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Noyan
Is Noyan safe?
Noyan’s Crime Severity Index is 62.8 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 13.3 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Noyan?
Police record assault most, 6.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (4.2) and fraud (3.9).
Is crime going up in Noyan?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 32%, to 71 from 54.
How much of Noyan’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 44% of crime (69% of violent crime, 30% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Noyan 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) · 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).