Photo: Bull-Doser · Public domainPer resident, Vaudreuil-Dorion records less crime than 86% of Canadian towns
Neither of the two towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Steady over the three years, the index read 39.8 in 2023 and 37.9 in 2025. Recorded violent incidents ran at 8.4 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 10.4, against 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Violence accounts for an index of 61.7 and other offences for 30.5, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56.
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: the Vaudreuil-Soulanges MRC.
What stands out about safety in Vaudreuil-Dorion
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Vaudreuil-Dorion is 7th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Vaudreuil-Dorion (69% violent, 34% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Under the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Vaudreuil-Dorion scores 39.2. 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.
How Vaudreuil-Dorion comes out at A
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: #53 of 503 in Quebec and #279 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.
Crime in Vaudreuil-Dorion, type by type
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 2.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 60.3 | 0.4 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 47.3 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 6 | 0.04 | 67% |
| Robbery | 23 | 0.1 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 20 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 37 | 0.2 | 68% |
| Breaking and entering | 175 | 1 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 74 | 0.4 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 237.3 | 1.4 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 52.7 | 0.3 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 412.7 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Mischief | 269.7 | 1.6 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 21 | 0.1 | 99% |
| Administration of justice violations | 262.7 | 1.6 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 58.7 | 0.3 | 72% |
| Drug violations | 78 | 0.5 | 88% |
| Impaired driving | 271.7 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 294 | 1.7 | 14% |
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.
By its index, Vaudreuil-Dorion stands 7th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakeshore Ontario | 45,954 | 26.8 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Alliston Ontario | 50,739 | 33.2 | 50.9 | A |
| 5 | Paris Ontario | 45,565 | 36.6 | 30.9 | A |
| 6 | Caledonia Ontario | 56,059 | 37.2 | 37.5 | A |
| 7 | Vaudreuil-Dorion Quebec | 46,413 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 8 | Cochrane Alberta | 39,397 | 39.7 | 38.9 | A |
| 9 | Port Moody British Columbia | 38,285 | 43.5 | 43.4 | A− |
| 10 | Rimouski Quebec | 51,756 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| 11 | Châteauguay Quebec | 53,508 | 50.6 | 85.7 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Boucherville Quebec | 41,910 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| 16 | Victoriaville Quebec | 49,863 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| 17 | Saint-Eustache Quebec | 47,562 | 55.4 | 78.9 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Prince Albert Saskatchewan | 40,728 | 295.8 | 470.9 | 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 Vaudreuil-Dorion in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Vaudreuil-Dorion is part of, 170,600 residents, recorded about 1,430 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 1,760 a year and other violations 1,130 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Vaudreuil-Dorion, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 39.9 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 37.9 in 2025. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 69.5 to 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Vaudreuil-Dorion | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.9 | 60 |
| 2024 | 39.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 39.8 | 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 Vaudreuil-Dorion, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Vaudreuil-Dorion
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaudreuil-Dorion | 46,413 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac | 1,340 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Terrasse-Vaudreuil | 1,883 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Pincourt | 15,220 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| L'Île-Perrot | 11,921 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Senneville | 1,042 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue | 5,393 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
The places around Vaudreuil-Dorion all score higher on the index. The table leaves out 4 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Vaudreuil-Dorion among them.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Vaudreuil-Dorion
Is Vaudreuil-Dorion safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 39.2 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: that is where Vaudreuil-Dorion stands, with 8.4 violent and 10.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Vaudreuil-Dorion?
Most often it is assault: 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come Criminal Code traffic offences at 4 and fraud at 3.
Is crime going up in Vaudreuil-Dorion?
Hardly at all, from 39.8 in 2023 to 37.9 in 2025.
How much of Vaudreuil-Dorion’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 69% of violent crime and 34% of everything else, 49% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Vaudreuil-Dorion 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).