Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Vieux-Moulin is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Across all the graded crimes, Vieux-Moulin lands on B− (#289 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. By contrast, in a usual year, 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, 10.8 and 25.1. 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. Measured across the Québec service area: crime severity and crime rate.
The grade: B− for Vieux-Moulin
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Vieux-Moulin itself compares.
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.
Vieux-Moulin’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 63.5, with 2023 the lightest at 62.5. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Vieux-Moulin | 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 Vieux-Moulin, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Vieux-Moulin
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vieux-Moulin | 15,935 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Maizerets | 14,571 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Vieux-Bourg | 14,774 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Jésuites | 15,792 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Lairet | 15,251 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Vieux-Limoilou | 14,347 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Michel | 17,303 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
6 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
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.”
- City-wide figures. The figures for Vieux-Moulin are city-wide: neighbourhood counts aren’t published as open data here.
Questions about safety in Vieux-Moulin
Is Vieux-Moulin safe?
The short answer is an index of 63 for Vieux-Moulin (2023–2025), built from 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. In the middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the figure is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Vieux-Moulin?
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 Vieux-Moulin?
Not much: the index went from 62.5 in 2023 to 63.5 in 2025.
How much of Vieux-Moulin’s crime do police solve?
About 37% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 53% of violent and 26% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police service that covers 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).