Photo: Boréal · CC BY-SA 3.0For recorded crime, Val-Bélair sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Each year brought 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+). By contrast, the overall Safety Grade is B− (#289 of 503 in Quebec), which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged 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. Area-wide: crime severity and crime rate, counted over the Québec service area.
What’s behind Val-Bélair’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most, because no figure exists for Val-Bélair on its own; the city’s, for its whole area, stands in.
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.
What Québec’s police record, 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, Val-Bélair’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 63.5; the lightest was 2023, at 62.5. The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Val-Bélair | 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 Val-Bélair, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Val-Bélair
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Val-Bélair | 30,003 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Loretteville | 15,653 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Des Châtels | 14,836 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Wendake | 2,234 | 71.8 | 115.2 | C+ |
| Lac-Saint-Charles | 9,985 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Émile | 16,893 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| L'Ancienne-Lorette | 17,876 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 5 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the city. The figures for Val-Bélair are city-wide: neighbourhood counts aren’t published as open data here.
- 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. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Val-Bélair
Is Val-Bélair safe?
Statistics Canada puts Val-Bélair at 63 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more sit at 60.3 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 15.1 and property crimes at 22.1 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Val-Bélair?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 8.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 6.8 and fraud at 5.9.
Is crime going up in Val-Bélair?
Barely: 62.5 in 2023, 63.5 in 2025.
How much of Val-Bélair’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).