Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime in Orsainville sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 89.4 and other offences to 53, beside norms of 75.2 and 54.2. Overall, Orsainville grades B− for safety (#289 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Year on year, 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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. Not measured by town: crime severity and crime rate (the Québec service area).
What’s behind Orsainville’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades, since the figure covers the entire city rather than Orsainville alone.
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.
Québec’s crime, type 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.
In Orsainville, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (63.5); 2023 was the low point, at 62.5. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Orsainville | 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 Orsainville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Orsainville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orsainville | 14,751 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Bourg-Royal | 14,430 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Charlesbourg | 9,660 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Jésuites | 15,792 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Émile | 16,893 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides | 16,222 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Rodrigue | 12,018 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
6 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- The whole city’s numbers. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Orsainville is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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 Orsainville
Is Orsainville safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Orsainville comes to 63. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 property crimes. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Orsainville?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 8.7 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (6.8) and fraud (5.9).
Is crime going up in Orsainville?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 62.5 to 63.5.
How much of Orsainville’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 37% of crime (53% of violent crime, 26% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ clears 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city police’s, as reported for the whole 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).