Photo: Dicklyon · CC BY-SA 4.0Pointe-des-Cascades records less crime per resident than 86% of Canadian towns
Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 39.8 to 37.9. On the record of crime the police covering Pointe-des-Cascades reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes A for safety. Its police logs show 8.4 violent incidents and 10.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2. Split in two, the index gives 61.7 for violence and 30.5 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Vaudreuil-Soulanges MRC.
What stands out about safety in Pointe-des-Cascades
Under the Quebec norm
Pointe-des-Cascades’s index of 39.2 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 49% of Pointe-des-Cascades’s crime, weighted by seriousness (69% of violent crime, 34% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Pointe-des-Cascades’s two halves part ways: 61.7 for violence (typical 86.4) and 30.5 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: A for Pointe-des-Cascades
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.
Pointe-des-Cascades’s crime by kind
Assault and fraud sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 2.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 60.3 | 0.4 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 47.3 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 6 | 0.04 | 67% |
| Robbery | 23 | 0.1 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 20 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 37 | 0.2 | 68% |
| Breaking and entering | 175 | 1 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 74 | 0.4 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 237.3 | 1.4 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 52.7 | 0.3 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 412.7 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Mischief | 269.7 | 1.6 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 21 | 0.1 | 99% |
| Administration of justice violations | 262.7 | 1.6 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 58.7 | 0.3 | 72% |
| Drug violations | 78 | 0.5 | 88% |
| Impaired driving | 271.7 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 294 | 1.7 | 14% |
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.
170,600 residents, about 1,430 violent incidents a year: the police area Pointe-des-Cascades belongs to, 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 1,760 property crimes and 1,130 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Pointe-des-Cascades, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 39.9 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 37.9 in 2025. 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 | Pointe-des-Cascades | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 39.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 39.8 | 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 Pointe-des-Cascades, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Pointe-des-Cascades
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe-des-Cascades | 1,867 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Pincourt | 15,220 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Terrasse-Vaudreuil | 1,883 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| L'Île-Perrot | 11,921 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Les Cèdres | 7,145 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot | 11,716 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Beauharnois | 15,285 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
The table leaves out 5 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Pointe-des-Cascades among them.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Pointe-des-Cascades
Is Pointe-des-Cascades safe?
Pointe-des-Cascades’s Crime Severity Index is 39.2 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 8.4 violent incidents and 10.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Pointe-des-Cascades?
Top of the list is assault (4.2 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 4, and fraud, at 3, follow.
Is crime going up in Pointe-des-Cascades?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 39.8 to 37.9.
How much of Pointe-des-Cascades’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 69% of violent crime and 34% of everything else, 49% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Pointe-des-Cascades 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).