Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Léonard sees more crime per resident than 77% of Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 96.8, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. Police clear 28% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%. Graded on crime the police covering Saint-Léonard reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C− for safety. Year on year, 26.3 violent incidents and 30.6 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Saint Leonard detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Léonard
Heavier than in 2023
From 78.1 in 2023 to 122.4 in 2025: that is Saint-Léonard’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Saint-Léonard records 9.8 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Heavier than New Brunswick’s middle
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 96.8 in Saint-Léonard. 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.
Saint-Léonard: C− for safety, and why
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.
Year by year in Saint-Léonard: up 57%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 122.4; the lightest was 2023, at 78.1. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Léonard | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 90 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 78.1 | 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 Saint-Léonard, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Saint-Léonard’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Léonard runs highest on mischief (9.8 per 1,000 against 4.2), assault (11.6 per 1,000 against 6.7) and break and enter (4.2 per 1,000 against 2.5). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10 | 0.7 | 73% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 52.3 | 4.2 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11.3 | 0.9 | 33% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 30.3 | 2.4 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.3 | 0.7 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 60.3 | 4.7 | 13% |
| Mischief | 123.7 | 9.8 | 8% |
| Weapons violations | 7.7 | 0.6 | 52% |
| Administration of justice violations | 59.3 | 4.8 | 66% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 33 | 2.7 | 28% |
| Drug violations | 12.7 | 1 | 29% |
| Impaired driving | 55 | 4.5 | 61% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.10 | — |
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.
The police area Saint-Léonard is part of, 11,500 residents, recorded about 330 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 380 a year and other violations 250 (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 Saint-Léonard
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Léonard | 1,384 | 96.8 | 127.6 | C− |
| Saint-André (14 km) | 1,987 | 96.8 | 127.6 | C− |
| Grand Falls / Grand-Sault (19 km) | 5,465 | 65.6 | 72.4 | B− |
| Drummond (25 km) | 2,113 | 96.8 | 127.6 | C− |
| Grand Falls (29 km) | 1,114 | 163.7 | 160.4 | D |
Nearby, 1 of 2 places with their own figures have a lower index than Saint-Léonard. Grand Falls / Grand-Sault, 19.3 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 65.6 to 96.8. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Saint-Léonard with figures are 14–29 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- Town and surroundings together. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Saint-Léonard is one part.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Saint-Léonard
Is Saint-Léonard safe?
Saint-Léonard measures 96.8 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 26.3 violent incidents and 30.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Léonard?
Police record assault most, 11.6 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (10.6) and mischief (9.8).
Is crime going up in Saint-Léonard?
Yes: the index rose 57%, from 78.1 in 2023 to 122.4 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Léonard’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 28% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 45% of violent crime and 18% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Léonard 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).