Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Vallée-Jonction records less crime than 88% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Vallée-Jonction reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A for safety. The yearly rates were 8.2 violent incidents and 8.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Violence accounts for an index of 68.7 and other offences for 25.6, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Its two neighbours with figures both record more crime per resident.
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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Nouvelle-Beauce MRC.
What stands out about safety in Vallée-Jonction
The violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Vallée-Jonction’s two halves part ways: 68.7 for violence (typical 86.4) and 25.6 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
Vallée-Jonction’s index of 37.7 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
Police cleared 51% of Vallée-Jonction’s crime, weighted by seriousness (68% of violent crime, 36% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
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 Vallée-Jonction’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.
41,100 residents, about 330 violent incidents a year: the police area Vallée-Jonction 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.
Property crime adds about 350 a year and other violations 230 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Vallée-Jonction’s crime by kind
Fraud and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 17.7 | 0.4 | 77% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Robbery | 4.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 9.3 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Breaking and entering | 44 | 1.1 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 28 | 0.7 | 35% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 13.3 | 0.3 | 23% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 70 | 1.7 | 42% |
| Mischief | 59 | 1.5 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 0.2 | 96% |
| Administration of justice violations | 53 | 1.3 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11.7 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Drug violations | 20.7 | 0.5 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 76.3 | 1.9 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 40 | 1 | 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 2,500 people or more.
Year by year in Vallée-Jonction: down 8%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 47.7 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 31.3 in 2025. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Vallée-Jonction | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 47.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 34 | 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 Vallée-Jonction, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Vallée-Jonction
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vallée-Jonction | 2,042 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saints-Anges | 1,364 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce | 5,339 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Saint-Frédéric | 1,172 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Marie | 13,873 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Elzéar | 2,842 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Frampton | 1,374 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
Vallée-Jonction has the lowest index of the places around it. Its police also cover 4 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Vallée-Jonction alone.
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
Questions about safety in Vallée-Jonction
Is Vallée-Jonction safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Vallée-Jonction’s Crime Severity Index stands at 37.7 for 2023–2025. Its police record 8.2 violent incidents and 8.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Vallée-Jonction?
Most often it is assault: 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 3.2 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.2.
Is crime going up in Vallée-Jonction?
No: the index fell 8%, from 34 in 2023 to 31.3 in 2025.
How much of Vallée-Jonction’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 51% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 68% of violent and 36% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Vallée-Jonction 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).