Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Roxton sees less crime per resident than 62% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 48.5 to 54.9. Still, the Safety Grade comes out at B, drawn from crime the police covering Roxton reported through 2023 to 2025. Each year brought 12.6 violent incidents and 13.6 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). All 3 towns next door with figures record 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. Measured across the Acton MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Roxton
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Roxton’s police clear 53%, 68% of violent crime and 40% of the rest. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Roxton’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
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Roxton scores 54.1. 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.
The B for Roxton, and how it is built
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, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 59.1, with 2023 the lightest at 48.5. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Roxton | 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, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Roxton, 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.
About 210 violent incidents a year across the police area of 16,400 residents that includes Roxton, 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.
Property crime adds about 220 a year and other violations 150 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Roxton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roxton | 1,180 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Roxton Falls | 1,399 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford | 1,552 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| Acton Vale | 7,945 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Roxton Pond | 4,884 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| Saint-Valérien-de-Milton | 1,794 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Upton | 2,149 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Roxton. Closest is Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford, 9.8 km away, at 45.3 to 54.1 here. 3 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 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Roxton alone.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Roxton
Is Roxton safe?
Roxton scores 54.1 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 12.6 violent incidents and 13.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Roxton?
The three biggest groups are assault at 5.2, fraud at 4.8 and other Criminal Code offences at 4.4, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Roxton?
It went up 13% between 2023 and 2025, from 48.5 to 54.9.
How much of Roxton’s crime do police solve?
53%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 68% and non-violent crime at 40%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Roxton together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).