Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0For recorded crime, Plateau sits in the middle of Canadian towns
For every 1,000 residents, 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, the figures are 10.8 and 25.1. Plateau’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. Its violent half comes to 89.4 and its non-violent half to 53, where the norm is 75.2 and 54.2.
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: the Québec service area.
The B− for Plateau, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Plateau 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.
Which crimes make up Québec’s figures
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.
Year by year in Plateau: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (63.5) and 2023 least (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 | Plateau | 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 Plateau, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Plateau
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plateau | 14,176 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy | 14,541 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Louis | 15,792 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Cité-Universitaire | 22,546 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Cap-Rouge | 17,139 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| L'Aéroport | 13,630 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| L'Ancienne-Lorette | 17,876 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
Sharing its police with 6 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.”
- City-wide figures. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Plateau carries the city-wide figures.
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Plateau
Is Plateau safe?
Police-reported crime in Plateau scores 63 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the figure is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Plateau?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (8.7 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 6.8, and fraud, at 5.9, follow.
Is crime going up in Plateau?
Barely: 62.5 in 2023, 63.5 in 2025.
How much of Plateau’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 37% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+); split up, that is 53% of violent and 26% of non-violent crime.
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).