Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Shawville than in 60% of Canadian towns
Each year brought 16.9 violent incidents and 12.5 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 83.9 and 44.9. The Safety Grade comes out at B, drawn from crime the police covering Shawville reported through 2023 to 2025. Add to that, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 57.5 to 54.2.
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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Pontiac MRC.
What stands out about safety in Shawville
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 63% of Shawville’s crime, weighted by seriousness (79% of violent crime, 51% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Shawville’s two halves part ways: 83.9 for violence (typical 86.4) and 44.9 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
About the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Shawville, 55.7. 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 Shawville’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.
Shawville’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Shawville runs highest on assault (8.4 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 | 9 | 0.6 | 78% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.3 | 0.6 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6 | 0.4 | 38% |
| Breaking and entering | 34.7 | 2.3 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 23.3 | 1.6 | 23% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 35 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Mischief | 37.3 | 2.5 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 9.3 | 0.6 | 100% |
| Administration of justice violations | 59 | 4 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.3 | 0.5 | 82% |
| Drug violations | 37.3 | 2.5 | 98% |
| Impaired driving | 45.3 | 3 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 13.7 | 0.9 | 29% |
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.
Shawville, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 57.5, against a low of 54.2 in 2025. 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 | Shawville | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 55.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 57.5 | 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 Shawville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Shawville is part of, 15,000 residents, recorded about 250 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 190 property crimes and 190 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 Shawville
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
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Shawville among them.
- Reading the number. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
Questions about safety in Shawville
Is Shawville safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Shawville’s Crime Severity Index stands at 55.7 for 2023–2025. Its police record 16.9 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Shawville?
The three biggest groups are assault at 8.4, other Criminal Code offences at 5.4 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Shawville?
Down 6%: 57.5 in 2023, 54.2 in 2025.
How much of Shawville’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 79% of violent crime and 51% of everything else, 63% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Shawville 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).