Photo: R. L'Heureux · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Val-Alain runs lower than in 81% of Canadian towns
Its Safety Grade is A−, on crime the police covering Val-Alain reported from 2023 to 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 10.3 violent incidents and 10.3 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Split in two, the index gives 72.9 for violence and 30.8 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). In 2023 the index stood at 45.4; it fell to 40.2 in 2025.
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 for the Lotbinière MRC.
What stands out about safety in Val-Alain
A high clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Val-Alain’s police clear 52%, 63% of violent crime and 41% of the rest. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Val-Alain’s index splits into violent crime, 72.9 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 30.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Under the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Val-Alain, 42.6. 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 sits behind Val-Alain’s A−
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.
Val-Alain, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 45.4 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 40.2. 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 | Val-Alain | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 42 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 45.4 | 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 Val-Alain, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 380 violent incidents a year across the police area of 37,800 residents that includes Val-Alain, 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 380 a year and other violations 190 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
What police record in Val-Alain, 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 | 18 | 0.5 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 11 | 0.3 | 55% |
| Breaking and entering | 57 | 1.5 | 35% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8.3 | 0.2 | 81% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 56.3 | 1.5 | 28% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.3 | 0.3 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 57 | 1.5 | 32% |
| Mischief | 81.3 | 2.2 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 7.3 | 0.2 | 92% |
| Administration of justice violations | 47.7 | 1.3 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.7 | 0.2 | 69% |
| Drug violations | 26 | 0.7 | 76% |
| Impaired driving | 48 | 1.3 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 30 | 0.8 | 27% |
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.
Crime in the places around Val-Alain
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Val-Alain | 1,084 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| Saint-Janvier-de-Joly | 1,204 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| Lyster | 1,679 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| Laurierville | 1,368 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| Saint-Flavien | 1,682 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| Laurier-Station | 2,838 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
The places around Val-Alain all score higher on the index. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 3 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Val-Alain among them.
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
Questions about safety in Val-Alain
Is Val-Alain safe?
Val-Alain scores 42.6 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 10.3 violent incidents and 10.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Val-Alain?
Most often it is assault: 4.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 2.7 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 2.5.
Is crime going up in Val-Alain?
Down 11%: 45.4 in 2023, 40.2 in 2025.
How much of Val-Alain’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 52% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 63% of violent crime and 41% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Val-Alain 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).