Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0For recorded crime, Pierreville sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Each of the 4 towns on its borders with figures records more crime per resident. Pierreville’s letter overall is B: close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Still, the index rose from 53.3 in 2023 to 60.7 in 2025. Recorded violent incidents ran at 12.4 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 13.8, against 12.0 and 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. Shared with the rest of the Nicolet-Yamaska MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Pierreville
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Pierreville’s police clear 52%, 67% of violent crime and 40% of the rest. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Pierreville’s index splits into violent crime, 87.6 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 44.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Pierreville’s index of 56.5 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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 Pierreville, 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.
What police record in Pierreville, by type
Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 21.7 | 0.9 | 60% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.3 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.3 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Breaking and entering | 47 | 2 | 30% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 35 | 1.5 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.3 | 0.3 | 18% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 86 | 3.6 | 33% |
| Mischief | 43.7 | 1.8 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 61.3 | 2.6 | 81% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7 | 0.3 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 34.3 | 1.4 | 50% |
| Impaired driving | 48.7 | 2 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 27.3 | 1.1 | 23% |
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.
Pierreville, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (60.7) and 2023 least (53.3). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Pierreville | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 55.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 53.3 | 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 Pierreville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Pierreville is part of, 24,000 residents, recorded about 300 violent incidents a year (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 330 a year and other violations 200 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Pierreville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pierreville | 2,154 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-François-du-Lac | 1,927 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Baie-du-Febvre | 1,023 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Yamaska | 1,815 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Saint-Robert | 1,846 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Saint-Bonaventure | 1,086 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel | 2,770 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Pierreville. 2 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- 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. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Pierreville shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Pierreville
Is Pierreville safe?
Its police recorded 12.4 violent incidents and 13.8 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Pierreville a Crime Severity Index of 56.5. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Pierreville?
The three biggest groups are assault at 5.5, fraud at 4.1 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Pierreville?
Yes: the index rose 14%, from 53.3 in 2023 to 60.7 in 2025.
How much of Pierreville’s crime do police solve?
52%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 67% and non-violent crime at 40%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Pierreville 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).