Photo: Mikano · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime in Venise-en-Québec is close to typical for Canadian towns
Neither of the two towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Across all the graded crimes, Venise-en-Québec lands on B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 13.3 violent incidents and 12.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 62.8 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 Haut-Richelieu MRC.
What stands out about safety in Venise-en-Québec
Rising since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Venise-en-Québec moved from 54 to 71, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 44% of crime in Venise-en-Québec ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 69% of violent crime and 30% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 62.8 in Venise-en-Québec. 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.
Venise-en-Québec: B− for safety, and why
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.
Year by year in Venise-en-Québec: up 32%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 71; the lightest was 2023, at 54. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Venise-en-Québec | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 63.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 54 | 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 Venise-en-Québec, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Venise-en-Québec’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Venise-en-Québec runs highest on Cannabis Act offences (2.8 per 1,000 against 0.05) and drug offences (3.4 per 1,000 against 0.7). Fraud and mischief 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 | 19 | 0.8 | 51% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Breaking and entering | 33.3 | 1.4 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.3 | 59% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 40 | 1.6 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.7 | 0.5 | 47% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 50 | 2 | 31% |
| Mischief | 55 | 2.2 | 31% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 62 | 2.5 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 31 | 1.3 | 23% |
| Drug violations | 84 | 3.4 | 17% |
| Impaired driving | 44.3 | 1.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 23 | 0.9 | 20% |
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.
24,900 residents, about 330 violent incidents a year: the police area Venise-en-Québec 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.
Add about 310 property crimes and 340 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Venise-en-Québec
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venise-en-Québec | 2,252 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville | 1,274 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Henryville | 1,664 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Saint-Armand | 1,241 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix | 2,321 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Noyan | 1,576 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Bedford | 2,845 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Venise-en-Québec. 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
- The clearance rate. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Venise-en-Québec among them.
- What 100 means. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
Questions about safety in Venise-en-Québec
Is Venise-en-Québec safe?
With 13.3 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Venise-en-Québec comes to 62.8 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Venise-en-Québec?
Assault is the most common, at 6.5 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (4.2) and fraud (3.9).
Is crime going up in Venise-en-Québec?
It went up 32% between 2023 and 2025, from 54 to 71.
How much of Venise-en-Québec’s crime do police solve?
44%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 69% and non-violent crime at 30%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Venise-en-Québec 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).