Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Rigaud runs lower than in 86% of Canadian towns
None of the 3 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. The grade is A, built on crime the police covering Rigaud reported from 2023 to 2025: #53 of 503 in Quebec. Its police logs show 8.4 violent incidents and 10.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical town its size the numbers are 12.9 and 31.2. Against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 61.7 and 30.5.
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, crime rate and incident counts (the Vaudreuil-Soulanges MRC).
What stands out about safety in Rigaud
Under the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 39.2 in Rigaud. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 49% of crime in Rigaud ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 69% of violent crime and 34% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Rigaud stands 13th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 61.7 on Rigaud’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 30.5 against 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Rigaud’s A
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: #53 of 503 in Quebec and #279 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Which crimes make up Rigaud’s figures
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 2.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 60.3 | 0.4 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 47.3 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 6 | 0.04 | 67% |
| Robbery | 23 | 0.1 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 20 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 37 | 0.2 | 68% |
| Breaking and entering | 175 | 1 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 74 | 0.4 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 237.3 | 1.4 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 52.7 | 0.3 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 412.7 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Mischief | 269.7 | 1.6 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 21 | 0.1 | 99% |
| Administration of justice violations | 262.7 | 1.6 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 58.7 | 0.3 | 72% |
| Drug violations | 78 | 0.5 | 88% |
| Impaired driving | 271.7 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 294 | 1.7 | 14% |
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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
About 1,430 violent incidents a year across the police area of 170,600 residents that includes Rigaud, 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.
And about 1,760 property crimes, plus 1,130 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Rigaud comes 13th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Douro-Dummer Ontario | 8,379 | 14.9 | 13.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Huron-Kinloss Ontario | 8,445 | 35 | 39.3 | A |
| 11 | Bayfield Ontario | 8,327 | 35 | 39.3 | A |
| 12 | North Stormont Ontario | 7,946 | 36.9 | 47.2 | A |
| 13 | Rigaud Quebec | 8,187 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 14 | Muskoka Lakes Ontario | 8,463 | 43.4 | 53.1 | A− |
| 15 | Electoral Area G, Nanaimo British Columbia | 8,412 | 44.5 | 43.2 | A− |
| 16 | Haliburton Village Ontario | 8,100 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Acton Vale Quebec | 7,945 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| 25 | La Malbaie Quebec | 8,293 | 57.2 | 83.8 | B |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Brownsburg-Chatham Quebec | 8,466 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Happy Valley-Goose Bay Newfoundland and Labrador | 8,197 | 360 | 345 | 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 Rigaud in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Rigaud’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 39.9; 2025 was lightest, at 37.9. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Rigaud | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.9 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 39.9 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 39.8 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Rigaud, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Rigaud
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rigaud | 8,187 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Très-Saint-Rédempteur | 1,163 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Saint-Placide | 1,751 | 83 | 129.3 | C |
| Sainte-Marthe | 1,065 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Saint-André-d'Argenteuil | 3,300 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| Hudson | 5,533 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Kanesatake | 1,872 | 83 | 129.3 | C |
The places around Rigaud all score higher on the index. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 3 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Rigaud shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- What clearance means. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
Questions about safety in Rigaud
Is Rigaud safe?
Against a typical 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Rigaud’s Crime Severity Index stands at 39.2 for 2023–2025. Its police record 8.4 violent incidents and 10.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Rigaud?
Police record assault most, 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of Criminal Code traffic offences (4) and fraud (3).
Is crime going up in Rigaud?
Barely: 39.8 in 2023, 37.9 in 2025.
How much of Rigaud’s crime do police solve?
49%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 69% and non-violent crime at 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Rigaud and everywhere else it polices.
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).