Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Warwick than in 61% of Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 55, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. What’s more, the Safety Grade comes out at B, drawn from crime the police covering Warwick reported through 2023 to 2025: #228 of 503 in Quebec. For every 1,000 residents, 14.7 violent incidents and 16.3 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical town its size, the figures are 12.9 and 31.2. In 2023 the index stood at 54.6; it fell to 51.6 in 2025.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Arthabaska MRC.
What stands out about safety in Warwick
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 50% of Warwick’s crime, weighted by seriousness (65% of violent crime, 37% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Warwick is 15th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Warwick scores 55. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Warwick’s two halves part ways: 86.5 for violence (typical 85.7) and 42.9 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The B for Warwick, and how it is built
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: #228 of 503 in Quebec and #715 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.
Warwick’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Warwick runs highest on drug offences (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 56.7 | 0.7 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 21 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.07 | 89% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 11.3 | 0.1 | 91% |
| Other violent violations | 29 | 0.4 | 63% |
| Breaking and entering | 125.7 | 1.6 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.3 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 111.7 | 1.4 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 24 | 0.3 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 383.7 | 5 | 44% |
| Mischief | 177 | 2.3 | 31% |
| Weapons violations | 14.3 | 0.2 | 89% |
| Administration of justice violations | 228.3 | 3 | 82% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 26 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Drug violations | 88.3 | 1.1 | 76% |
| Impaired driving | 158.3 | 2.1 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 149 | 1.9 | 9% |
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.
By its index, Warwick stands 15th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand Valley Ontario | 4,759 | 26.4 | 20.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Saint-Agapit Quebec | 4,817 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Roxton Pond Quebec | 4,884 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Edenwold No. 158 Saskatchewan | 4,932 | 52.8 | 60.8 | B+ |
| 13 | Morin-Heights Quebec | 5,086 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| 14 | Saint-Jacques Quebec | 4,830 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| 15 | Warwick Quebec | 4,939 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| 16 | Hastings Highlands Ontario | 4,957 | 55.2 | 59.6 | B |
| 17 | Saint-Donat Quebec | 5,087 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 18 | Altona Manitoba | 4,989 | 59.1 | 44 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 23 | Saint-Germain-de-Grantham Quebec | 5,054 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| 24 | Sutton Quebec | 4,775 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Nipawin Saskatchewan | 5,033 | 182.3 | 163.9 | 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 Warwick in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Warwick, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 58.8; 2025 was lightest, at 51.6. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Warwick | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51.6 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 58.8 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 54.6 | 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 Warwick, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
77,600 residents, about 1,130 violent incidents a year: the police area Warwick 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 1,250 property crimes and 710 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 Warwick
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warwick | 4,939 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Tingwick | 1,567 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Saint-Albert | 1,744 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska | 3,307 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Victoriaville | 49,863 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Kingsey Falls | 2,072 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Saint-Valère | 1,187 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 6 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “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, Warwick 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.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Warwick
Is Warwick safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Warwick scores 55 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 14.7 violent and 16.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Warwick?
Most often it is assault: 7.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 5.1 and theft under $5,000 at 5.
Is crime going up in Warwick?
No: the index fell 6%, from 54.6 in 2023 to 51.6 in 2025.
How much of Warwick’s crime do police solve?
50%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 65% and non-violent crime at 37%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Warwick and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).