Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Valcourt records less crime per resident than 76% of Canadian towns
The grade is A−, built on crime the police covering Valcourt reported from 2023 to 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 10.5 violent incidents and 11.1 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Of the two halves, violence comes to 82.8 and other offences to 30.3, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. The index fell from 50.5 in 2023 to 43.6 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Val-Saint-François MRC.
What stands out about safety in Valcourt
Heavier on violence
Valcourt’s index splits into violent crime, 82.8 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 30.3 against 62.8. By type ↓
A high clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Valcourt’s police clear 47%, 61% of violent crime and 32% of the rest. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 45 in Valcourt. 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 Valcourt’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.
Valcourt, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 50.5; the lightest was 2024, at 41. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Valcourt | 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 Valcourt, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Valcourt is part of, 33,400 residents, recorded about 350 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.
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.
What police record in Valcourt, by type
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.
Crime in the places around Valcourt
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valcourt | 1,081 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Valcourt | 2,203 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Racine | 1,441 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford | 1,552 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| Roxton | 1,180 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Roxton Falls | 1,399 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Durham-Sud | 1,041 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Valcourt. 2 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Valcourt among them.
Questions about safety in Valcourt
Is Valcourt safe?
Valcourt’s Crime Severity Index is 45 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 10.5 violent incidents and 11.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Valcourt?
Most often it is assault: 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 3.8 and theft under $5,000 at 2.3.
Is crime going up in Valcourt?
Down 14%: 50.5 in 2023, 43.6 in 2025.
How much of Valcourt’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 47% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 61% of violent crime and 32% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Valcourt and everywhere else it polices.
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).