Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Salaberry-de-Valleyfield sees more crime per resident than 63% of Canadian towns
Its letter for safety is C+, worked out from crime the police covering Salaberry-de-Valleyfield reported over 2023 to 2025: #382 of 503 in Quebec. Add to that, all 4 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. The local count comes to 23.9 violent incidents and 16.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 75.4 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 66 for the typical Canadian town its size.
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: the Beauharnois-Salaberry MRC.
What stands out about safety in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield records 1.9 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 57% for Salaberry-de-Valleyfield (72% violent, 42% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, 75.4. Towns its size ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield comes 23rd, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. 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.
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield: C+ for safety, and why
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: #382 of 503 in Quebec and #1,575 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Crime in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield runs highest on drug offences (1.9 per 1,000 against 0.8), assault (13.4 per 1,000 against 6.6) and sexual assault (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.8). Motor vehicle theft and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 51 | 0.9 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 40.7 | 0.7 | 89% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 18.3 | 0.3 | 66% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 12.7 | 0.2 | 97% |
| Other violent violations | 24 | 0.4 | 78% |
| Breaking and entering | 146 | 2.5 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 14 | 0.2 | 84% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 74 | 1.3 | 18% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 27 | 0.5 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 282 | 4.8 | 45% |
| Mischief | 157 | 2.7 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 26.3 | 0.4 | 80% |
| Administration of justice violations | 216.7 | 3.7 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 37.7 | 0.6 | 74% |
| Drug violations | 109 | 1.9 | 93% |
| Impaired driving | 109 | 1.8 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 165.3 | 2.8 | 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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Year by year in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield: down 6%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 77.1, and its lowest 2025, at 72.8. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Salaberry-de-Valleyfield | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 76.4 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 77.1 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
The police area Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is part of, 60,100 residents, recorded about 1,410 violent incidents a year (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 980 property crimes and 730 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is 23rd of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakeshore Ontario | 45,954 | 26.8 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Vaudreuil-Dorion Quebec | 46,413 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Rimouski Quebec | 51,756 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| 11 | Châteauguay Quebec | 53,508 | 50.6 | 85.7 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Boucherville Quebec | 41,910 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| … | |||||
| 20 | St. Thomas Ontario | 49,388 | 65.2 | 72.6 | B− |
| 21 | Rouyn-Noranda Quebec | 43,270 | 66.7 | 112.8 | B− |
| 22 | Woodstock Ontario | 55,572 | 69.7 | 61.8 | C+ |
| 23 | Salaberry-de-Valleyfield Quebec | 47,002 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| 24 | Shawinigan Quebec | 51,739 | 76 | 113.4 | C+ |
| 25 | West Kelowna British Columbia | 40,274 | 78.4 | 79.1 | C+ |
| 26 | Dollard-Des Ormeaux Quebec | 50,246 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Prince Albert Saskatchewan | 40,728 | 295.8 | 470.9 | 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 Salaberry-de-Valleyfield in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salaberry-de-Valleyfield | 47,002 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Coteau-du-Lac | 7,839 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Les Coteaux | 6,294 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka | 2,162 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Les Cèdres | 7,145 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague | 2,536 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Saint-Zotique | 10,445 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
The places around Salaberry-de-Valleyfield all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Coteau-du-Lac (5.8 km away), scores 39.2 against 75.4. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “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 Salaberry-de-Valleyfield alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
Is Salaberry-de-Valleyfield safe?
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield scores 75.4 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66; per 1,000 residents a year that is 23.9 violent incidents and 16.7 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield?
Police record assault most, 13.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of Criminal Code traffic offences (5.1) and other Criminal Code offences (5.1).
Is crime going up in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield?
Down 6%: 77.1 in 2023, 72.8 in 2025.
How much of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield’s crime do police solve?
About 57% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 72% of violent and 42% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Salaberry-de-Valleyfield 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).