Photo: Municipalité de Wickham · CC BY-SA 4.0Wickham sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
The overall Safety Grade is C+ (#362 of 503 in Quebec), which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. What’s more, each year brought 18.0 violent incidents and 19.5 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size). Both towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 72.2 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 68.5 for the typical Canadian 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. Shared with the rest of the Drummond MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Wickham
Violence weighs more than the rest
Wickham’s index splits into violent crime, 124.7 here and 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 51.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Wickham’s police clear 49%, 63% of violent crime and 35% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 72.2 in Wickham. Towns its size ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Wickham stands 20th, the lowest first. 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.
Inside Wickham’s C+ for safety
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: #362 of 503 in Quebec and #1,514 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.
What police record in Wickham, by type
Against the typical town its size, Wickham runs highest on assault (8.9 per 1,000 against 6.7). 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 | 156.7 | 1.4 | 60% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 36.7 | 0.3 | 98% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 33.3 | 0.3 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 21 | 0.2 | 87% |
| Other violent violations | 58 | 0.5 | 72% |
| Breaking and entering | 255.7 | 2.2 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 44 | 0.4 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 221 | 1.9 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 47.7 | 0.4 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 609.3 | 5.3 | 36% |
| Mischief | 364 | 3.2 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 29.3 | 0.3 | 71% |
| Administration of justice violations | 377.3 | 3.3 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 59 | 0.5 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 146.7 | 1.3 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 261.3 | 2.3 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 260.7 | 2.3 | 12% |
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.
In Wickham, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 74.7 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2024, at 69.4. The typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Wickham | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.3 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 69.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 74.7 | 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 Wickham, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
The police area Wickham is part of, 115,700 residents, recorded about 2,050 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.
Property crime adds about 2,220 a year and other violations 1,200 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
By its index, Wickham stands 20th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse Quebec | 2,739 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| 2 | Eastman Quebec | 2,706 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Yamachiche Quebec | 2,801 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Maria Quebec | 2,770 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Saint-Alexandre Quebec | 2,685 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| 18 | Atikokan Ontario | 2,796 | 68.9 | 109.7 | B− |
| 19 | Cultus Lake British Columbia | 2,773 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
| 20 | Wickham Quebec | 2,745 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| 21 | Division No. 8, Subdivision L Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,724 | 73.3 | 54.3 | C+ |
| 22 | Macamic Quebec | 2,698 | 75.8 | 140 | C+ |
| 23 | Gore Quebec | 2,756 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Kuujjuaq Quebec | 2,766 | 805.8 | 2,056.5 | 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 Wickham in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Wickham
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wickham | 2,745 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Théodore-d'Acton | 1,650 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Saint-Germain-de-Grantham | 5,054 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Drummondville | 85,560 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Eugène | 1,180 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Acton Vale | 7,945 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| L'Avenir | 1,456 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
The places around Wickham all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Saint-Théodore-d'Acton (7.7 km away), scores 54.1 against 72.2. Same police, same number: 4 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Wickham alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Wickham
Is Wickham safe?
Statistics Canada puts Wickham at 72.2 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people sit at 68.5 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 18 and property crimes at 19.5 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Wickham?
Assault is the most common, at 8.9 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (5.5) and theft under $5,000 (5.3).
Is crime going up in Wickham?
Not much: the index went from 74.7 in 2023 to 72.3 in 2025.
How much of Wickham’s crime do police solve?
About 49% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 63% of violent and 35% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Wickham 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).