Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0La Guadeloupe sees less crime per resident than 73% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 81.3 and other offences to 34.7, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. Year on year, 10.9 violent incidents and 10.6 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On top of that, its Safety Grade is B+, on crime the police covering La Guadeloupe reported from 2023 to 2025. Among its 3 neighbours with figures, 2 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Beauce-Sartigan MRC.
What stands out about safety in La Guadeloupe
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 64% of crime in La Guadeloupe ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 82% of violent crime and 48% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 81.3 on La Guadeloupe’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 34.7 against 62.8. By type ↓
Down since 2023
From 50.7 in 2023 to 42 in 2025: that is La Guadeloupe’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; La Guadeloupe, 47.7. 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’s behind La Guadeloupe’s grade
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.
From 2023 to 2025, La Guadeloupe’s index dropped 17%
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 50.7, and its lowest 2025, at 42. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | La Guadeloupe | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 50.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 50.7 | 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 La Guadeloupe, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area La Guadeloupe is part of, 55,400 residents, recorded about 600 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.
Add about 580 property crimes and 500 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Which crimes make up La Guadeloupe’s figures
Fraud and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 28.3 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 14.3 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 7.3 | 0.1 | 92% |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 20.7 | 0.4 | 77% |
| Breaking and entering | 62.3 | 1.1 | 52% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.3 | 0.10 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 30.7 | 0.6 | 34% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.3 | 0.2 | 33% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 124.7 | 2.3 | 46% |
| Mischief | 97.3 | 1.8 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 17.3 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Administration of justice violations | 142 | 2.6 | 97% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15.7 | 0.3 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 83.7 | 1.5 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 107.7 | 2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 95.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
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 La Guadeloupe
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Guadeloupe | 1,927 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley | 1,610 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce | 2,575 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Adstock | 3,203 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Benoît-Labre | 1,655 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Lambton | 1,714 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Victor | 2,344 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
La Guadeloupe sits above 1 of the 3 neighbours with figures of their own. Saint-Victor, 19.2 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 44 to 47.7. Same police, same number: 3 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
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for La Guadeloupe alone.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in La Guadeloupe
Is La Guadeloupe safe?
La Guadeloupe scores 47.7 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 10.9 violent incidents and 10.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in La Guadeloupe?
Top of the list is assault (5 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 4.2, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 4.1, follow.
Is crime going up in La Guadeloupe?
No: the index fell 17%, from 50.7 in 2023 to 42 in 2025.
How much of La Guadeloupe’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 64% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 82% of violent crime and 48% 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 La Guadeloupe 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).