Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Yamaska sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
The local count comes to 14.2 violent incidents and 16.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its letter overall is B: close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 60.6 to 56.1. Both towns next door with figures 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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Pierre-De Saurel MRC.
What stands out about safety in Yamaska
Above-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 47% for Yamaska (65% violent, 35% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Yamaska, 58.7. 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.
What sits behind Yamaska’s B
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 Yamaska, type by type
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 32.3 | 0.6 | 54% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.2 | 82% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 18.7 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Breaking and entering | 111.3 | 2.1 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 13 | 0.2 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 76.7 | 1.4 | 18% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 21 | 0.4 | 18% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 272 | 5.1 | 35% |
| Mischief | 149.7 | 2.8 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 10 | 0.2 | 77% |
| Administration of justice violations | 261.3 | 4.9 | 98% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 85.3 | 1.6 | 63% |
| Impaired driving | 88.7 | 1.7 | 92% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 126.7 | 2.4 | 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 people or more.
Yamaska, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 60.6, against a low of 56.1 in 2025. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Yamaska | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 59.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 60.6 | 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 Yamaska, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
54,100 residents, about 760 violent incidents a year: the police area Yamaska 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.
Property crime adds about 900 a year and other violations 620 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Yamaska
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yamaska | 1,815 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Saint-Robert | 1,846 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Saint-François-du-Lac | 1,927 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel | 2,770 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Pierreville | 2,154 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel | 2,599 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Sorel-Tracy | 36,537 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Yamaska. Saint-François-du-Lac, 9.8 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 56.5 to 58.7. The table leaves out 4 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Yamaska alone.
- Reading the number. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Yamaska
Is Yamaska safe?
Yamaska scores 58.7 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 14.2 violent incidents and 16.9 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Yamaska?
Assault is the most common, at 7.4 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (5.7) and theft under $5,000 (5.1).
Is crime going up in Yamaska?
The reverse: 60.6 in 2023 came down to 56.1 by 2025, 7% lower.
How much of Yamaska’s crime do police solve?
47%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 65% and non-violent crime at 35%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Yamaska 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).