Photo: Pierre Bona · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Mont-Saint-Grégoire records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 62.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5. Mont-Saint-Grégoire grades B− for safety overall (#285 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Violence and property crime split as 13.3 violent incidents and 12.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Its 4 neighbours with figures all 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts for the Haut-Richelieu MRC.
What stands out about safety in Mont-Saint-Grégoire
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Mont-Saint-Grégoire records 3.4 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
More severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Mont-Saint-Grégoire moved from 54 to 71, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Mont-Saint-Grégoire places 24th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Mont-Saint-Grégoire’s police clear 44%, 69% of violent crime and 30% 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.
Inside Mont-Saint-Grégoire’s B− for safety
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.
Its place: #285 of 503 in Quebec and #942 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Mont-Saint-Grégoire’s index rose 32% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (71); 2023 was the low point, at 54. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Mont-Saint-Grégoire | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 63.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 54 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Mont-Saint-Grégoire, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
What police record in Mont-Saint-Grégoire, by type
Against the typical town its size, Mont-Saint-Grégoire runs highest on Cannabis Act offences (2.8 per 1,000 against 0.03) and drug offences (3.4 per 1,000 against 0.7). 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 | 19 | 0.8 | 51% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Breaking and entering | 33.3 | 1.4 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.3 | 59% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 40 | 1.6 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.7 | 0.5 | 47% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 50 | 2 | 31% |
| Mischief | 55 | 2.2 | 31% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 62 | 2.5 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 31 | 1.3 | 23% |
| Drug violations | 84 | 3.4 | 17% |
| Impaired driving | 44.3 | 1.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 23 | 0.9 | 20% |
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 to 10,000 people.
Mont-Saint-Grégoire is 24th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelaide-Metcalfe Ontario | 3,196 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Beaumont Quebec | 3,188 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| 7 | Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Quebec | 3,173 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| 8 | Saint-Alexis-des-Monts Quebec | 3,190 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| 9 | Paspébiac Quebec | 3,132 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 21 | Adstock Quebec | 3,203 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| 22 | Clermont Quebec | 3,117 | 57.2 | 83.8 | B |
| 23 | Saint-Gabriel Quebec | 3,091 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| 24 | Mont-Saint-Grégoire Quebec | 3,158 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| 25 | New Maryland New Brunswick | 3,198 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| 26 | Kingsclear New Brunswick | 3,158 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| 27 | Percé Quebec | 3,137 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | La Loche Saskatchewan | 3,124 | 1,107 | 1,524.7 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Mont-Saint-Grégoire in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 330 violent incidents a year across the police area of 24,900 residents that includes Mont-Saint-Grégoire, 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 310 a year and other violations 340 (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 Mont-Saint-Grégoire
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont-Saint-Grégoire | 3,158 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville | 1,540 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Sainte-Angèle-de-Monnoir | 1,862 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
| Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | 100,806 | 53.1 | 81 | B+ |
| Marieville | 11,910 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
| Richelieu | 6,048 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
| Saint-Alexandre | 2,685 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
Mont-Saint-Grégoire has the highest index of the places around it. Just 8.4 km away, Sainte-Angèle-de-Monnoir comes to 55, against 62.8. The table leaves out 2 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
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Mont-Saint-Grégoire among them.
- 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.
- The clearance rate. 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.
Questions about safety in Mont-Saint-Grégoire
Is Mont-Saint-Grégoire safe?
Its police recorded 13.3 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Mont-Saint-Grégoire a Crime Severity Index of 62.8. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Mont-Saint-Grégoire?
Top of the list is assault (6.5 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 4.2, and fraud, at 3.9, follow.
Is crime going up in Mont-Saint-Grégoire?
It has: 54 in 2023 became 71 by 2025, a rise of 32%.
How much of Mont-Saint-Grégoire’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 69% of violent crime and 30% of everything else, 44% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Mont-Saint-Grégoire 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).