Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Val-Joli sees less crime per resident than 76% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 50.5 to 43.6. Add to that, its letter for safety is A−, worked out from crime the police covering Val-Joli reported over 2023 to 2025. Of the two halves, violence comes to 82.8 and other offences to 30.3, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. In a usual year, 10.5 violent incidents and 11.1 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Val-Saint-François MRC.
What stands out about safety in Val-Joli
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Val-Joli’s two halves part ways: 82.8 for violence (typical 86.4) and 30.3 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 47% of Val-Joli’s crime, weighted by seriousness (61% of violent crime, 32% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Val-Joli, 45. 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-Joli’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.
Val-Joli, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 50.5; the lightest was 2024, at 41. 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 | Val-Joli | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 41 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 50.5 | 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 Val-Joli, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Val-Joli’s crime by kind
Fraud and assault 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 | 23.7 | 0.7 | 49% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6.7 | 0.2 | 79% |
| Breaking and entering | 49 | 1.5 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 42.3 | 1.3 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8 | 0.2 | 21% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 74.3 | 2.3 | 44% |
| Mischief | 55.7 | 1.7 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 0.2 | 74% |
| Administration of justice violations | 54.3 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Drug violations | 20 | 0.6 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 40 | 1.2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 18.3 | 0.6 | 16% |
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.
Around 350 violent incidents a year in the 33,400-resident police area around Val-Joli, 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 370 a year and other violations 160 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Val-Joli
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Val-Joli | 1,787 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Claude | 1,167 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Windsor | 5,368 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton | 2,650 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Georges-de-Windsor | 1,034 | 72.6 | 127.5 | C+ |
| Stoke | 3,272 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Cleveland | 1,624 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 5 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Val-Joli shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. 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.
Questions about safety in Val-Joli
Is Val-Joli safe?
Statistics Canada puts Val-Joli at 45 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 10.5 and property crimes at 11.1 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Val-Joli?
The three biggest groups are assault at 4.5, fraud at 3.8 and theft under $5,000 at 2.3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Val-Joli?
Down 14%: 50.5 in 2023, 43.6 in 2025.
How much of Val-Joli’s crime do police solve?
47%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 61% and non-violent crime at 32%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Val-Joli 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).