Photo: Challwa · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Saint-Valérien-de-Milton than in 68% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 70.8 for violence and 41.7 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Out of every 1,000 residents, 9.7 violent incidents and 14.0 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On top of that, from 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Saint-Valérien-de-Milton reported put it at B+ for safety. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 48.6 to 45.9.
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 Maskoutains MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Valérien-de-Milton
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 49% of crime in Saint-Valérien-de-Milton ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 67% of violent crime and 38% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Valérien-de-Milton, 49.7. 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.
What’s behind Saint-Valérien-de-Milton’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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Which crimes make up Saint-Valérien-de-Milton’s figures
Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.00 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 52.7 | 0.6 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 21.3 | 0.2 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.06 | 51% |
| Robbery | 18 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 10.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 20.3 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Breaking and entering | 171.7 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.7 | 0.2 | 79% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 125.7 | 1.3 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 41.7 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 403 | 4.3 | 36% |
| Mischief | 165.7 | 1.8 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 15.7 | 0.2 | 83% |
| Administration of justice violations | 181 | 1.9 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 30.7 | 0.3 | 79% |
| Drug violations | 84.7 | 0.9 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 135 | 1.4 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 216.3 | 2.3 | 11% |
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 910 violent incidents a year in the 94,500-resident police area around Saint-Valérien-de-Milton, 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 1,310 a year and other violations 730 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Saint-Valérien-de-Milton, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 54.6, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 45.9. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Valérien-de-Milton | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 54.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 48.6 | 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 Saint-Valérien-de-Milton, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Valérien-de-Milton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Valérien-de-Milton | 1,794 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Roxton Pond | 4,884 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton | 2,267 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| Upton | 2,149 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Saint-Liboire | 3,123 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Dominique | 3,062 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Roxton | 1,180 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
Saint-Valérien-de-Milton sits above 2 of the 4 neighbours with figures of their own. The nearest of them, Roxton Pond (9.7 km away), scores 45.3 against 49.7. The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Valérien-de-Milton shares it with its neighbours.
- 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 Saint-Valérien-de-Milton
Is Saint-Valérien-de-Milton safe?
Saint-Valérien-de-Milton’s Crime Severity Index is 49.7 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 9.7 violent incidents and 14 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Valérien-de-Milton?
The three biggest groups are assault at 4.5, theft under $5,000 at 4.3 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.1, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Valérien-de-Milton?
No: the index fell 5%, from 48.6 in 2023 to 45.9 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Valérien-de-Milton’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 49% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 67% of violent and 38% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Valérien-de-Milton 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).