Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0Varennes records less crime per resident than 89% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 58.5 and other offences for 28.9, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56. Its letter for safety is A, worked out from crime the police covering Varennes reported over 2023 to 2025: #26 of 503 in Quebec. Year on year, 8.6 violent incidents and 10.8 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. On top of that, among its 6 neighbours with figures, 2 record less 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 Richelieu Saint-Laurent service area.
What stands out about safety in Varennes
Below Quebec’s typical town
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Varennes scores 37.1. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Varennes is 8th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 46% of Varennes’s crime, weighted by seriousness (65% of violent crime, 32% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Less severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Varennes moved from 39.2 to 33.2, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 to 60. Year by year ↓
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 Varennes’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: #26 of 503 in Quebec and #227 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.
Varennes’s crime by kind
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 49.7 | 0.2 | 58% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 56.3 | 0.3 | 90% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.7 | 0.03 | 70% |
| Robbery | 41.3 | 0.2 | 64% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 22.3 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 49.7 | 0.2 | 73% |
| Breaking and entering | 264.3 | 1.2 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 41.7 | 0.2 | 72% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 294 | 1.3 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 72.7 | 0.3 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 606 | 2.7 | 33% |
| Mischief | 283.3 | 1.3 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 21 | 0.10 | 76% |
| Administration of justice violations | 350.7 | 1.6 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 49 | 0.2 | 69% |
| Drug violations | 125.7 | 0.6 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 258.7 | 1.2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 194.3 | 0.9 | 27% |
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Varennes’s index dropped 15%
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 39.2, and 2025 the lightest at 33.2. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Varennes | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33.2 | 60 |
| 2024 | 38.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 39.2 | 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 Varennes, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Among 40 towns its size, Varennes places 8th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quispamsis New Brunswick | 20,240 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | South Frontenac Ontario | 21,599 | 27.1 | 32.9 | A+ |
| 6 | Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac Quebec | 21,949 | 30.8 | 56.8 | A+ |
| 7 | Loyalist Ontario | 19,761 | 35.7 | 52.3 | A |
| 8 | Varennes Quebec | 21,490 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 9 | Kemptville Ontario | 19,733 | 37.9 | 52.9 | A |
| 10 | Saint-Lazare Quebec | 22,895 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 11 | Uxbridge Ontario | 22,618 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Rivière-du-Loup Quebec | 20,650 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 21 | Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures Quebec | 20,864 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| 22 | Joliette Quebec | 22,408 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 23 | Baie-Comeau Quebec | 20,660 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Yellowknife Northwest Territories | 22,858 | 304.6 | 362 | 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 Varennes in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 1,900 violent incidents a year across the police area of 222,500 residents that includes Varennes, 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 2,390 property crimes, plus 1,120 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 Varennes
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Varennes | 21,490 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| Pointe-aux-Trembles | 49,869 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Charlemagne | 6,695 | 28.1 | 48.2 | A+ |
| Montréal-Est | 5,112 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Boucherville | 41,910 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| Repentigny | 91,290 | 28.1 | 48.2 | A+ |
| Rivière-des-Prairies | 21,852 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
Nearby, 2 of 6 places with their own figures have a lower index than Varennes. Just 7.4 km away, Charlemagne comes to 28.1, against 37.1.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One service, several municipalities. Varennes is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Varennes
Is Varennes safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 37.1 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: that is where Varennes stands, with 8.6 violent and 10.8 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Varennes?
Police record assault most, 4.1 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (3.5) and theft under $5,000 (2.7).
Is crime going up in Varennes?
Down 15%: 39.2 in 2023, 33.2 in 2025.
How much of Varennes’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 46%: 65% for violent crime and 32% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Varennes 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).