Photo: Nichole Ouellette · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Batiscan runs lower than in 86% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 34.4 to 39.2. By contrast, it grades A for safety on crime the police covering Batiscan reported from 2023 to 2025. Its violent half comes to 52 and its non-violent half to 34.5, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. In a usual year, 9.0 violent incidents and 11.2 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Chenaux MRC.
What stands out about safety in Batiscan
Under the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 39.2 in Batiscan. Towns its size ↓
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Batiscan’s police clear 48%, 72% of violent crime and 34% of the rest. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Batiscan: A 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.
Batiscan, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 44.1; 2023 was lightest, at 34.4. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Batiscan | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 44.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 34.4 | 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 Batiscan, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
13,900 residents, about 120 violent incidents a year: the police area Batiscan 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 150 property crimes and 78 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
What police record in Batiscan, by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6.3 | 0.5 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 33 | 2.4 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.3 | 1.4 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25.3 | 1.8 | 24% |
| Mischief | 23.7 | 1.7 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 23.7 | 1.7 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 7.3 | 0.5 | 64% |
| Impaired driving | 18 | 1.3 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 14.7 | 1.1 | 18% |
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.
Crime in the places around Batiscan
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batiscan | 1,006 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets | 1,172 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade | 2,036 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan | 1,137 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Champlain | 1,957 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Stanislas | 1,040 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Narcisse | 1,848 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
5 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “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’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Batiscan alone.
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Batiscan
Is Batiscan safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Batiscan scores 39.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 9 violent and 11.2 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Batiscan?
Police record assault most, 3.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (3.2) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.9).
Is crime going up in Batiscan?
It has: 34.4 in 2023 became 39.2 by 2025, a rise of 14%.
How much of Batiscan’s crime do police solve?
About 48% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 72% of violent and 34% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Batiscan 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).