Photo: Nicolas Raymond from Bethesda, Maryland, USA · CC BY 2.0Crime in Rawdon sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Overall, it grades B for safety (#260 of 503 in Quebec). Add to that, in 2023 the index stood at 61.4; it fell to 53.7 in 2025. For every 1,000 residents, 10.8 violent incidents and 14.7 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical town its size, the figures are 12.0 and 30.5. Each of the 3 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident.
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, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Matawinie MRC.
What stands out about safety in Rawdon
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Rawdon is 22nd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the typical clearance rate is 33%; Rawdon’s police clear 43%, 59% of violent crime and 32% of the rest. Questions ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Rawdon scores 57.5. Towns its size ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Rawdon’s grade
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: #260 of 503 in Quebec and #863 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
What police record in Rawdon, by type
Against the typical town its size, Rawdon runs highest on sexual assault (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.8) and motor vehicle theft (3 per 1,000 against 2.4). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 44.3 | 0.8 | 49% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 15.3 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.09 | 75% |
| Robbery | 6.3 | 0.1 | 75% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.09 | 80% |
| Other violent violations | 16 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Breaking and entering | 131.3 | 2.3 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 46 | 0.8 | 65% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 174 | 3 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 41.3 | 0.7 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 144.7 | 2.5 | 23% |
| Mischief | 96.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 19.3 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 92 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16.7 | 0.3 | 60% |
| Drug violations | 48 | 0.8 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 123 | 2.1 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 75 | 1.3 | 16% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment, incidents a year its own. 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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Rawdon, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (61.4); 2025 was the lightest, at 53.7. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Rawdon | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53.7 | 60 |
| 2024 | 57.4 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 61.4 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Rawdon, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Rawdon is 22nd of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rothesay New Brunswick | 12,626 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine Quebec | 12,427 | 32.2 | 50.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Carignan Quebec | 12,618 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Sainte-Marie Quebec | 13,873 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 12 | Saint-Hippolyte Quebec | 12,550 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Sainte-Julienne Quebec | 12,990 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| 20 | View Royal British Columbia | 12,795 | 54.5 | 53.9 | B |
| 21 | Summerland British Columbia | 12,343 | 56.2 | 38.6 | B |
| 22 | Rawdon Quebec | 13,099 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 23 | Lorette Manitoba | 13,509 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| 24 | Sidney British Columbia | 13,445 | 68.4 | 72.4 | B− |
| 25 | Dolbeau-Mistassini Quebec | 13,581 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Thompson Manitoba | 12,917 | 589.9 | 1,034.6 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Rawdon in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
58,800 residents, about 620 violent incidents a year: the police area Rawdon belongs to, 2023–2025
Violent incidents per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Property crimes per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Statistics Canada counts actual incidents; those police record as unfounded are listed apart and kept out of its crime rates and severity index. Each incident is filed under its most serious violation, which the survey sets partly by the maximum penalty.
Add about 840 property crimes and 420 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Rawdon
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rawdon | 13,099 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Sainte-Julienne | 12,990 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare | 1,941 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Chertsey | 5,678 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Alexis | 1,462 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez | 3,639 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Liguori | 2,268 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Rawdon. Sainte-Julienne, 9.7 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 54 to 57.5. 3 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
- 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. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Rawdon alone.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Rawdon
Is Rawdon safe?
Against a typical 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, Rawdon’s Crime Severity Index stands at 57.5 for 2023–2025. Its police record 10.8 violent incidents and 14.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Rawdon?
Top of the list is assault (5.4 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 4, and motor vehicle theft, at 3, follow.
Is crime going up in Rawdon?
The reverse: 61.4 in 2023 came down to 53.7 by 2025, 13% lower.
How much of Rawdon’s crime do police solve?
43%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 33%. Violent crime is cleared at 59% and non-violent crime at 32%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Rawdon and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).