Photo: Jnicperron · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Valcourt runs lower than in 76% of Canadian towns
Its letter for safety is A−, worked out from crime the police covering Valcourt reported over 2023 to 2025. Violence accounts for an index of 82.8 and other offences for 30.3, against usual levels 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. On top of that, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 50.5 to 43.6.
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. Shared with the rest of the Val-Saint-François MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Valcourt
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Valcourt’s two halves part ways: 82.8 for violence (typical 86.4) and 30.3 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 47% of Valcourt’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
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Valcourt scores 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 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
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 50.5, and 2024 the lightest 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 | 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+.
Valcourt’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.
33,400 residents, about 350 violent incidents a year: the police area Valcourt belongs to, 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 370 property crimes, plus 160 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Valcourt
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valcourt | 2,203 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Valcourt | 1,081 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Racine | 1,441 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford | 1,552 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| Durham-Sud | 1,041 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Denis-de-Brompton | 5,249 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Stukely-Sud | 1,242 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
Nearby, 1 of 3 places with their own figures have a lower index than Valcourt. Stukely-Sud, 17.8 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 39.9 to 45. The comparison skips 3 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Valcourt among them.
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Valcourt
Is Valcourt safe?
Statistics Canada puts Valcourt 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 Valcourt?
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 Valcourt?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 14%, to 43.6 from 50.5.
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 police service or detachment that covers Valcourt 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).