Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Papineauville is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Annual rates stand at 17.5 violent incidents and 13.9 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 55.7 to 63.1. Overall, it grades B− for safety. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 61.7 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2.
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. Measured across the Papineau MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Papineauville
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Papineauville’s police clear 60%, 79% of violent crime and 41% of the rest. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Papineauville’s index splits into violent crime, 107.3 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 44 against 62.8. By type ↓
Near the Quebec middle
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 61.7 in Papineauville. 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.
The B− for Papineauville, and how it is built
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.
Papineauville, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 66.2, with 2023 the lightest at 55.7. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Papineauville | 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 Papineauville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Papineauville, by type
Against the typical town its size, Papineauville runs highest on assault (8.6 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud and mischief sit below it.
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 Papineauville, 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 Papineauville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Papineauville | 2,332 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Plaisance | 1,191 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Wendover | 10,896 | 46.8 | 72.6 | A− |
| Saint-André-Avellin | 3,862 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Thurso | 3,439 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Ripon | 1,835 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
4 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Papineauville alone.
Questions about safety in Papineauville
Is Papineauville safe?
Its police recorded 17.5 violent incidents and 13.9 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Papineauville a Crime Severity Index of 61.7. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Papineauville?
Top of the list is assault (8.6 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.7, and fraud, at 3.4, follow.
Is crime going up in Papineauville?
It went up 13% between 2023 and 2025, from 55.7 to 63.1.
How much of Papineauville’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 60%: 79% for violent crime and 41% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Papineauville and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).