Photo: Roncanada · CC BY-SA 4.0Maskinongé has less crime per resident than 79% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 60.8 and 38. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Maskinongé reported put it at A− for safety. Violence and property crime split as 9.3 violent incidents and 12.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On top of that, each of the 3 towns on its borders with figures records more 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Maskinongé MRC.
What stands out about safety in Maskinongé
A high clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 51% of crime in Maskinongé ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 79% of violent crime and 33% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Lighter than Quebec’s middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Maskinongé scores 44.3. Towns its size ↓
Rising since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Maskinongé moved from 37.1 to 45.2, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Maskinongé: 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.
Which crimes make up Maskinongé’s figures
Assault 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 | 21 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10.7 | 0.3 | 91% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Breaking and entering | 77.3 | 2 | 19% |
| Possession of stolen property | 13 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 72.3 | 1.9 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18.7 | 0.5 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 88.3 | 2.3 | 28% |
| Mischief | 69 | 1.8 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 7.7 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 78.7 | 2 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 0.3 | 77% |
| Drug violations | 28.3 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 66 | 1.7 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 46.7 | 1.2 | 25% |
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.
Year by year in Maskinongé: up 22%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 50.5; 2023 was the lightest, at 37.1. 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 | Maskinongé | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 50.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 37.1 | 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 Maskinongé, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 360 violent incidents a year across the police area of 38,800 residents that includes Maskinongé, 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 480 a year and other violations 260 (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 Maskinongé
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maskinongé | 2,457 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Louiseville | 7,570 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Ursule | 1,363 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Barthélemy | 2,115 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Yamachiche | 2,801 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel | 2,770 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Saint-Cuthbert | 1,865 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Maskinongé. 3 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Maskinongé shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. 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 Maskinongé
Is Maskinongé safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Maskinongé’s Crime Severity Index stands at 44.3 for 2023–2025. Its police record 9.3 violent incidents and 12.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Maskinongé?
Top of the list is assault (3.9 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 3.5, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.4, follow.
Is crime going up in Maskinongé?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 22%, to 45.2 from 37.1.
How much of Maskinongé’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 51% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 79% of violent crime and 33% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Maskinongé 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).