Photo: Vintotal · CC BY-SA 3.0Ville-Marie records more crime per resident than seven in ten Canadian towns
The grade is C, built on crime the police covering Ville-Marie reported from 2023 to 2025. Its violent half comes to 130.7 and its non-violent half to 64.5, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Violence and property crime split as 20.3 violent incidents and 19.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Témiscamingue MRC.
What stands out about safety in Ville-Marie
Above-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 52% for Ville-Marie (74% violent, 33% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Ville-Marie, 82.9. Towns its size ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Ville-Marie records 4.6 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.5 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Rising since 2023
In 2023 the index in Ville-Marie stood at 78.2, by 2025 at 91.7. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. 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 sits behind Ville-Marie’s C
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.
Crime in Ville-Marie, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Ville-Marie runs highest on break and enter (4.6 per 1,000 against 2.5) and assault (10.1 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 11.3 | 0.7 | 86% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 6.7 | 0.4 | 64% |
| Other violent violations | 10 | 0.7 | 77% |
| Breaking and entering | 70.7 | 4.6 | 26% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 23 | 1.5 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 74.3 | 4.8 | 20% |
| Mischief | 60 | 3.9 | 20% |
| Weapons violations | 8.3 | 0.5 | 72% |
| Administration of justice violations | 105 | 6.8 | 70% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.7 | 0.5 | 61% |
| Drug violations | 30.3 | 2 | 50% |
| Impaired driving | 31.3 | 2 | 81% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 15.7 | 1 | 17% |
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.
Ville-Marie’s index rose 17% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (91.7); 2023 was the low point, at 78.2. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Ville-Marie | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 78.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 78.2 | 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 Ville-Marie, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Ville-Marie is part of, 15,300 residents, recorded about 310 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.
And about 300 property crimes, plus 210 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 Ville-Marie
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ville-Marie | 2,421 | 82.9 | 130.7 | C |
| Lorrainville | 1,277 | 82.9 | 130.7 | C |
| Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues | 1,197 | 82.9 | 130.7 | C |
2 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Ville-Marie shares it with its neighbours.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Ville-Marie
Is Ville-Marie safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 82.9 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Ville-Marie stands, with 20.3 violent and 19.7 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Ville-Marie?
Most often it is assault: 10.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 8.2 and theft under $5,000 at 4.8.
Is crime going up in Ville-Marie?
It went up 17% between 2023 and 2025, from 78.2 to 91.7.
How much of Ville-Marie’s crime do police solve?
52%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 74% and non-violent crime at 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Ville-Marie 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).