Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Verchères records less crime than 89% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 58.5 and 28.9. Among its 5 neighbours with figures, 2 record less crime per resident. Verchères’s letter for safety is A, worked out from crime the police covering Verchères reported over 2023 to 2025: #26 of 503 in Quebec. Behind the grade sit 8.6 violent incidents and 10.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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: one figure for all of the Richelieu Saint-Laurent service area.
What stands out about safety in Verchères
A lower index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Verchères stands 4th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 37.1 in Verchères. Towns its size ↓
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 46% of Verchères’s crime, weighted by seriousness (65% of violent crime, 32% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Less severe than in 2023
From 39.2 in 2023 to 33.2 in 2025: that is Verchères’s index, against 74.3 and 64.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. 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 Verchères’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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Verchères’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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Among 40 towns its size, Verchères places 4th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Ferris Ontario | 5,835 | 17.7 | 27.2 | A+ |
| 2 | Havelock Ontario | 5,663 | 29.2 | 33.7 | A+ |
| 3 | West Lorne Ontario | 5,566 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| 4 | Verchères Quebec | 5,819 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 5 | Saint-Henri Quebec | 6,048 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| 6 | Orford Quebec | 5,698 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 7 | Waterloo Quebec | 5,714 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Lac-Mégantic Quebec | 5,947 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
| 10 | Val-David Quebec | 5,920 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Amqui Quebec | 6,059 | 53.7 | 103.9 | B |
| 13 | Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan Quebec | 5,675 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | The Pas Manitoba | 5,634 | 572.1 | 753.3 | 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 Verchères in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Year by year in Verchères: down 15%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 39.2, and 2025 the lightest at 33.2. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Verchères | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 38.9 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 39.2 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Verchères, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 1,900 violent incidents a year in the 222,500-resident police area around Verchères, 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 Verchères
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verchères | 5,819 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| Saint-Sulpice | 3,688 | 39.2 | 59 | A |
| Repentigny | 91,290 | 28.1 | 48.2 | A+ |
| L'Assomption | 25,126 | 39.2 | 59 | A |
| Charlemagne | 6,695 | 28.1 | 48.2 | A+ |
| Varennes | 21,490 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| Lavaltrie | 15,996 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
Nearby, 2 of 5 places with their own figures have a lower index than Verchères. Repentigny, 7.3 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 28.1 to 37.1. Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- A regional police service. The service that polices Verchères reports once for its whole area, so the figures aren’t the town’s alone.
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Verchères
Is Verchères safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Verchères comes to 37.1. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 8.6 violent incidents and 10.8 property crimes. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Verchères?
Most often it is assault: 4.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 3.5 and theft under $5,000 at 2.7.
Is crime going up in Verchères?
It went down 15% between 2023 and 2025, from 39.2 to 33.2.
How much of Verchères’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 46% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 65% of violent crime and 32% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Verchères 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).