Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Roxton Falls records less crime than 62% of Canadian towns
Year on year, 12.6 violent incidents and 13.6 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Split in two, the index gives 86 for violence and 41.9 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Measured on crime the police covering Roxton Falls reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of B. By contrast, by 2025 the index had climbed to 54.9, up from 48.5 in 2023.
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 Acton MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Roxton Falls
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Roxton Falls’s police clear 53%, 68% of violent crime and 40% of the rest. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Roxton Falls’s index splits into violent crime, 86 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 41.9 against 62.8. By type ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 54.1 in Roxton Falls. 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 Roxton Falls’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.
Roxton Falls, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 59.1, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2023, came in at 48.5. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Roxton Falls | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 59.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 48.5 | 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 Roxton Falls, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Roxton Falls, by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 15 | 0.9 | 58% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.3 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Breaking and entering | 23.7 | 1.4 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5 | 0.3 | 74% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 22.7 | 1.4 | 12% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39 | 2.4 | 41% |
| Mischief | 41.7 | 2.6 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 0.3 | 74% |
| Administration of justice violations | 57.7 | 3.5 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Drug violations | 25.7 | 1.6 | 66% |
| Impaired driving | 35.7 | 2.2 | 92% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 15.7 | 1 | 24% |
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.
Around 210 violent incidents a year in the 16,400-resident police area around Roxton Falls, 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 220 property crimes, plus 150 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Roxton Falls
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roxton Falls | 1,399 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Roxton | 1,180 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Acton Vale | 7,945 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford | 1,552 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| Saint-Valérien-de-Milton | 1,794 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Théodore-d'Acton | 1,650 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Upton | 2,149 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
The places around Roxton Falls all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford (12.8 km away), scores 45.3 against 54.1. 4 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
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Roxton Falls alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
Questions about safety in Roxton Falls
Is Roxton Falls safe?
Roxton Falls’s Crime Severity Index is 54.1 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 12.6 violent incidents and 13.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Roxton Falls?
Assault is the most common, at 5.2 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (4.8) and other Criminal Code offences (4.4).
Is crime going up in Roxton Falls?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 13%, to 54.9 from 48.5.
How much of Roxton Falls’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 53% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 68% of violent and 40% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Roxton Falls 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).