Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Val-d'Or has more crime per resident than 79% of Canadian towns
Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 102 to 104.9. Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 183.5 and 72.5. The grade is C−, built on crime the police covering Val-d'Or reported from 2023 to 2025: #484 of 503 in Quebec. Annual rates stand at 29.2 violent incidents and 25.2 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical 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 for the Vallée-de-l'Or MRC.
What stands out about safety in Val-d'Or
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Val-d'Or records 2.5 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 ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 58% for Val-d'Or (72% violent, 44% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Val-d'Or’s index of 103.6 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Val-d'Or places 32nd from the lowest 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.
What’s behind Val-d'Or’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: #484 of 503 in Quebec and #1,936 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 Val-d'Or, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Val-d'Or runs highest on drug offences (2.5 per 1,000 against 0.8), assault (15.8 per 1,000 against 6.6) and sexual assault (1.6 per 1,000 against 0.8). Theft under $5,000 and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 52.7 | 1.2 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 48 | 1.1 | 96% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 6.3 | 0.1 | 52% |
| Robbery | 17.7 | 0.4 | 60% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 20 | 0.5 | 79% |
| Other violent violations | 21.3 | 0.5 | 80% |
| Breaking and entering | 163 | 3.8 | 39% |
| Possession of stolen property | 16.3 | 0.4 | 49% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 64 | 1.5 | 38% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 24.3 | 0.6 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 389.3 | 9.1 | 49% |
| Mischief | 200.7 | 4.7 | 32% |
| Weapons violations | 23.3 | 0.5 | 67% |
| Administration of justice violations | 235.3 | 5.5 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 40.7 | 1 | 72% |
| Drug violations | 109 | 2.5 | 64% |
| Impaired driving | 171.7 | 4 | 85% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 116 | 2.7 | 15% |
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.
Val-d'Or is 32nd of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LaSalle Ontario | 36,452 | 22.9 | 17.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Chambly Quebec | 31,870 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 4 | Sainte-Julie Quebec | 30,981 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Saint-Constant Quebec | 32,124 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 7 | Magog Quebec | 30,764 | 42 | 55.3 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 29 | Conception Bay South Newfoundland and Labrador | 29,725 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| 30 | Orillia Ontario | 37,735 | 98.5 | 146.3 | C− |
| 31 | North Cowichan British Columbia | 34,525 | 99 | 124 | C− |
| 32 | Val-d'Or Quebec | 33,353 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| 33 | Moose Jaw Saskatchewan | 36,337 | 105 | 105.2 | C− |
| 34 | Dieppe New Brunswick | 35,986 | 113.1 | 113.3 | C− |
| 35 | Parkland County Alberta | 34,286 | 121 | 115 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Whitehorse Yukon | 34,129 | 171.7 | 196.7 | 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 Val-d'Or in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Val-d'Or is part of, 43,000 residents, recorded about 1,250 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.
And about 1,080 property crimes, plus 760 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Val-d'Or, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (104.9) and 2023 least (102). The typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Val-d'Or | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104.9 | 60 |
| 2024 | 103.8 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 102 | 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 Val-d'Or, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Val-d'Or
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Val-d'Or | 33,353 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| Malartic (25 km) | 3,506 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| Rivière-Héva (31 km) | 1,567 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| Lac Simon (33 km) | 1,403 | 794.3 | 1,940.4 | D− |
| Barraute (39 km) | 1,939 | 78.7 | 145.2 | C |
| Senneterre (39 km) | 1,189 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
1 of the 2 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Val-d'Or. The nearest of them, Barraute (38.8 km away), scores 78.7 against 103.6. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 3 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 25–39 km from Val-d'Or.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Val-d'Or among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Val-d'Or
Is Val-d'Or safe?
Val-d'Or’s Crime Severity Index is 103.6 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 29.2 violent incidents and 25.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, the median is 66.
What is the most common crime in Val-d'Or?
Top of the list is assault (15.8 per 1,000 residents a year); theft under $5,000, at 9.1, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 7.6, follow.
Is crime going up in Val-d'Or?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 102 to 104.9.
How much of Val-d'Or’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 58%: 72% for violent crime and 44% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Val-d'Or 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).