Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Prévost records less crime than 87% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 60.1 and its non-violent half to 29.5, where the norm is 89.4 and 56. None of the 4 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. What’s more, from 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Prévost reported put it at A for safety: #46 of 503 in Quebec. In a usual year, 8.9 violent incidents and 10.5 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.0 and 30.5.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Rivière-du-Nord MRC.
What stands out about safety in Prévost
Below Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 38 in Prévost. Towns its size ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Prévost stands 12th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the typical clearance rate is 33%; Prévost’s police clear 48%, 69% of violent crime and 31% of the rest. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Prévost’s grade
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.
Its place: #46 of 503 in Quebec and #262 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
What police record in Prévost, by type
Mischief 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 | 22.3 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.1 | 82% |
| Other violent violations | 12 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Breaking and entering | 57.7 | 1.3 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11.7 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 73.3 | 1.6 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 26.7 | 0.6 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 112 | 2.5 | 25% |
| Mischief | 48.3 | 1.1 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 7.3 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 84 | 1.8 | 93% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 0.3 | 80% |
| Drug violations | 15 | 0.3 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 60.7 | 1.3 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 41.3 | 0.9 | 31% |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
46,300 residents, about 410 violent incidents a year: the police area Prévost 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.
Property crime adds about 480 a year and other violations 250 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Prévost comes 12th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiny Ontario | 14,195 | 27.9 | 36.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Val-des-Monts Quebec | 14,473 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Campbellford Ontario | 15,103 | 37 | 48.3 | A |
| 10 | Saint-Amable Quebec | 14,119 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 11 | Sainte-Marie Quebec | 13,873 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 12 | Prévost Quebec | 14,275 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| 13 | Beaverton Ontario | 13,710 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| 14 | Bécancour Quebec | 14,943 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
| 15 | Ingersoll Ontario | 14,911 | 47.7 | 60.5 | B+ |
| 16 | Rosemère Quebec | 14,198 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 18 | Sainte-Adèle Quebec | 15,216 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 20 | Matane Quebec | 14,180 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | North Battleford Saskatchewan | 14,882 | 528.4 | 591.9 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Prévost in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
From 2023 to 2025, Prévost’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 40.3 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 36.4 in 2023. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Prévost | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.4 | 60 |
| 2024 | 40.3 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 36.4 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Prévost, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Prévost
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prévost | 14,275 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs | 4,080 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| Saint-Hippolyte | 12,550 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| Piedmont | 3,667 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| Saint-Jérôme | 85,160 | 77.6 | 129.6 | C+ |
| Sainte-Sophie | 19,467 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| Saint-Sauveur | 12,112 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Prévost. 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
- 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 reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Prévost among them.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Prévost
Is Prévost safe?
Its police recorded 8.9 violent incidents and 10.5 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Prévost a Crime Severity Index of 38. Set that beside 66, the median for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Prévost?
Police record assault most, 4.3 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (3) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.7).
Is crime going up in Prévost?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 36.4 to 37.4.
How much of Prévost’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 48% of crime (69% of violent crime, 31% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Prévost 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).