Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0For recorded crime, Trois-Rivières sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Each of the 6 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Trois-Rivières at B− (#282 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns. Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 63 in 2023 to 57.8 by 2025. Against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2, violent and non-violent offences here reach 93.7 and 49.1.
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.
What stands out about safety in Trois-Rivières
Sexual assault: high for a town its size
Trois-Rivières records 1.4 incidents of sexual assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. By type ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Trois-Rivières stands 20th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the typical clearance rate is 38%; Trois-Rivières’s police clear 50%, 64% of violent crime and 39% of the rest. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Trois-Rivières’s index splits into violent crime, 93.7 here and 75.2 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 49.1 against 54.2. By type ↓
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 Trois-Rivières’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.
Its place: #282 of 503 in Quebec and #924 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What police record in Trois-Rivières, by type
Against the typical town its size, Trois-Rivières runs highest on sexual assault (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.8), drug offences (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.9) and assault (6.5 per 1,000 against 4.9). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 56.3 | 0.4 | 56% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 69.3 | 0.5 | 98% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 14.7 | 0.1 | 73% |
| Robbery | 44 | 0.3 | 59% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 22.7 | 0.2 | 79% |
| Other violent violations | 38 | 0.3 | 56% |
| Breaking and entering | 311 | 2.1 | 36% |
| Possession of stolen property | 27.3 | 0.2 | 83% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 309 | 2.1 | 20% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 57 | 0.4 | 23% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 837.7 | 5.7 | 28% |
| Mischief | 290 | 2 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 36 | 0.2 | 92% |
| Administration of justice violations | 566 | 3.8 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 63 | 0.4 | 68% |
| Drug violations | 207.7 | 1.4 | 71% |
| Impaired driving | 204.3 | 1.4 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 203.7 | 1.4 | 30% |
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 50,000 people or more.
Trois-Rivières, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 63.6; 2025 was the lightest, at 57.8. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 64.3 and 2025 gave 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Trois-Rivières | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57.8 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 63.6 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 63 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Trois-Rivières, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
About 1,950 violent incidents a year reached Trois-Rivières’s police, 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 2,740 a year and other violations 1,380 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Trois-Rivières comes 20th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burlington Ontario | 197,737 | 31.4 | 28.3 | A |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Lévis Quebec | 160,882 | 34.5 | 57.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Terrebonne Quebec | 126,872 | 41.6 | 72.5 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Quebec | 100,806 | 53.1 | 81 | B+ |
| 12 | Saguenay Quebec | 151,972 | 53.3 | 87.4 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Delta British Columbia | 124,670 | 59.7 | 69.8 | B− |
| 18 | Coquitlam British Columbia | 173,599 | 59.8 | 61.6 | B− |
| 19 | Barrie Ontario | 174,469 | 60.8 | 73 | B− |
| 20 | Trois-Rivières Quebec | 149,934 | 61.5 | 93.7 | B− |
| 21 | Strathcona County Alberta | 107,345 | 68.4 | 61.3 | B− |
| 22 | Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury Ontario | 188,504 | 69.9 | 115.3 | C+ |
| 23 | Cambridge Ontario | 165,354 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Victoria British Columbia | 103,888 | 161.3 | 160.1 | 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 Trois-Rivières in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Trois-Rivières
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trois-Rivières | 149,934 | 61.5 | 93.7 | B− |
| Saint-Maurice | 3,804 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Bécancour | 14,943 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
| Nicolet | 8,737 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel | 6,613 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Champlain | 1,957 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès | 4,675 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
Trois-Rivières has the highest index of the places around it. Just 11.6 km away, Saint-Maurice comes to 39.2, against 61.5.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. 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 Trois-Rivières
Is Trois-Rivières safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Trois-Rivières scores 61.5 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 13.2 violent and 18.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Trois-Rivières?
The three biggest groups are assault at 6.5, fraud at 5.8 and theft under $5,000 at 5.7, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Trois-Rivières?
Down 8%: 63 in 2023, 57.8 in 2025.
How much of Trois-Rivières’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 64% of violent crime and 39% of everything else, 50% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 38% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Trois-Rivières and nowhere else.
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).