Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Ripon records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Its letter overall is B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. On top of that, on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 61.7, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 55.7 to 63.1. In a usual year, 17.5 violent incidents and 13.9 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2.
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 Papineau MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Ripon
A high clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 60% of crime in Ripon ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 79% of violent crime and 41% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 107.3 on Ripon’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 44 against 62.8. By type ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Ripon scores 61.7. 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.
Inside Ripon’s B− for safety
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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Ripon, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 66.2 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 55.7 in 2023. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Ripon | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 66.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.7 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Ripon, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Ripon’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Ripon runs highest on assault (8.6 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14.7 | 0.5 | 88% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.7 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.7 | 58% |
| Breaking and entering | 66.7 | 2.5 | 39% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.7 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 56.7 | 2.1 | 28% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18 | 0.7 | 22% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 56 | 2.1 | 34% |
| Mischief | 65.7 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 9.7 | 0.4 | 69% |
| Administration of justice violations | 62 | 2.3 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 31 | 1.1 | 65% |
| Impaired driving | 49 | 1.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 23.7 | 0.9 | 28% |
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 people or more.
27,100 residents, about 470 violent incidents a year: the police area Ripon 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 370 property crimes and 220 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 Ripon
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ripon | 1,835 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Saint-André-Avellin | 3,862 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Montpellier | 1,253 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Lac-Simon | 1,159 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Plaisance | 1,191 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Papineauville | 2,332 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
5 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Ripon alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
Questions about safety in Ripon
Is Ripon safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Ripon comes to 61.7. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 17.5 violent incidents and 13.9 property crimes. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Ripon?
Top of the list is assault (8.6 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.7, and fraud, at 3.4, follow.
Is crime going up in Ripon?
Up 13%: 55.7 in 2023, 63.1 in 2025.
How much of Ripon’s crime do police solve?
About 60% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 79% of violent and 41% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Ripon 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).