Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Bourg-Royal is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Police counts work out at 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ they are 10.8 and 25.1. Split in two, the index gives 89.4 for violence and 53 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2). Bourg-Royal’s overall Safety Grade is B− (#289 of 503 in Quebec): 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 and crime rate: one figure for all of the Québec service area.
What’s behind Bourg-Royal’s grade
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Bourg-Royal can differ a long way from its city’s average.
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: #289 of 503 in Quebec and #951 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Crime across Québec, by type
These are Québec’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Québec runs highest on drug offences (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.9), assault (6.8 per 1,000 against 4.9) and sexual assault (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.8). Mischief and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 4.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 158.7 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 294.3 | 0.5 | 91% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 40.7 | 0.07 | 58% |
| Robbery | 140.7 | 0.2 | 44% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 95.7 | 0.2 | 80% |
| Other violent violations | 222.7 | 0.4 | 48% |
| Breaking and entering | 1,561.3 | 2.5 | 19% |
| Possession of stolen property | 130.3 | 0.2 | 41% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 683.3 | 1.1 | 12% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 257.3 | 0.4 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 5,452.3 | 8.7 | 20% |
| Mischief | 1,807.7 | 2.9 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 160.7 | 0.3 | 56% |
| Administration of justice violations | 2,199 | 3.5 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 298.3 | 0.5 | 46% |
| Drug violations | 957.3 | 1.5 | 77% |
| Impaired driving | 933.7 | 1.5 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 522.3 | 0.8 | 10% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
From 2023 to 2025, Bourg-Royal’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 63.5, and 2023 lowest at 62.5. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ read 64.3 (2023), then 59.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Bourg-Royal | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63.5 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 63 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 62.5 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Bourg-Royal, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Bourg-Royal
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourg-Royal | 14,430 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Jésuites | 15,792 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Orsainville | 14,751 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Charlesbourg | 9,660 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Michel | 17,303 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Vieux-Moulin | 15,935 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Rodrigue | 12,018 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
6 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. 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.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Bourg-Royal carries the city-wide figures.
Questions about safety in Bourg-Royal
Is Bourg-Royal safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Bourg-Royal comes to 63. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 property crimes. The middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Bourg-Royal?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 8.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (6.8) and fraud (5.9).
Is crime going up in Bourg-Royal?
Barely: 62.5 in 2023, 63.5 in 2025.
How much of Bourg-Royal’s crime do police solve?
37%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ manages 38%. Violent crime is cleared at 53% and non-violent crime at 26%.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the city.
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).