Photo: Pofortin · CC BY-SA 3.0For recorded crime, Wendake sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 71.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. Weighing it all, Wendake earns C+ for safety, with close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported over 2023 to 2025. Year on year, 22.1 violent incidents and 22.1 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its 6 neighbours with figures all record less crime per resident.
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.
What stands out about safety in Wendake
A high clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 56% of crime in Wendake ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 71% of violent crime and 44% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Assault: high for a town its size
Wendake records 11.3 incidents of assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Wendake’s index of 71.8 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on violence
Violent crime scores 115.2 on Wendake’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 55 against 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 C+ for Wendake, 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Which crimes make up Wendake’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Wendake runs highest on assault (11.3 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.8 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.4 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 5 | 2.3 | 26% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 18.3 | 8.3 | 48% |
| Mischief | 9.3 | 4.2 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 0.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 8.3 | 3.8 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1 | 0.5 | — |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 1.7 | — |
| Impaired driving | 8 | 3.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2 | 0.9 | — |
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 people or more.
Around 49 violent incidents a year on Wendake’s police records (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 49 property crimes, plus 28 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Wendake’s index year by year
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 75.3, with 2023 the lightest at 68.9. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Wendake | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 71.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 68.9 | 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 Wendake, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Wendake
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wendake | 2,234 | 71.8 | 115.2 | C+ |
| Loretteville | 15,653 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Émile | 16,893 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Des Châtels | 14,836 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Lac-Saint-Charles | 9,985 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf | 37,164 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Val-Bélair | 30,003 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
The places around Wendake all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Loretteville (1.5 km away), scores 63 against 71.8.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Small numbers. The police behind these figures serve about 2,234 people, so a handful of incidents moves every rate. Statistics Canada’s note: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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 Wendake
Is Wendake safe?
Wendake scores 71.8 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 22.1 violent incidents and 22.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Wendake?
Police record assault most, 11.3 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (8.3) and fraud (5.6).
Is crime going up in Wendake?
It has: 68.9 in 2023 became 75.3 by 2025, a rise of 9%. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Wendake’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 56% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 71% of violent crime and 44% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Wendake alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).