Photo: Simon.bastien · Public domainSaint-Sulpice records more crime per resident than 67% of Canadian towns
From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Saint-Sulpice reported put it at C for safety: #396 of 503 in Quebec. Against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2, violent and non-violent offences here reach 115.7 and 66.9. Per 1,000 residents a year, 12 property crimes are recorded here; the typical Montréal neighbourhood sees 12. Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 81.4 to 78.4.
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. Source area for crime severity and crime rate: the Montréal service area.
What’s behind Saint-Sulpice’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Saint-Sulpice’s own streets could sit well above or below it.
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: #396 of 503 in Quebec and #1,643 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Montréal’s crime, type by type
These are Montréal’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Montréal runs highest on robbery (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.4), motor vehicle theft (4.3 per 1,000 against 1.7) and assault (8.2 per 1,000 against 4.9). Mischief sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 32 | 0.02 | 65% |
| Sexual violations against children | 412.3 | 0.2 | 40% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 932.7 | 0.4 | 92% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 210.3 | 0.10 | 38% |
| Robbery | 2,329.3 | 1.1 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 371 | 0.2 | 74% |
| Other violent violations | 732.7 | 0.3 | 41% |
| Breaking and entering | 6,567 | 3.1 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 667 | 0.3 | 66% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 9,140 | 4.3 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1,353 | 0.6 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25,416 | 11.8 | 17% |
| Mischief | 6,913.3 | 3.2 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 510 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Administration of justice violations | 6,916.3 | 3.2 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1,578.7 | 0.7 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 2,470.7 | 1.2 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 1,728 | 0.8 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6,866.3 | 3.2 | 8% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
How Saint-Sulpice compares across Montréal
Property crime per 1,000 a year
Robbery per 1,000 a year
Of 77 Montréal neighbourhoods, Saint-Sulpice comes 37th counting from the lowest rate: below the typical one.
Montréal’s neighbourhoods, lowest rate first
| # | Neighbourhood | Property | Robbery |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ile-des-Soeurs | 4.4 | 0.1 |
| 2 | René-Goupil | 5.4 | 0.2 |
| 3 | L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève | 5.8 | 0.2 |
| 4 | Sault-Saint-Louis | 6.2 | 0.4 |
| 5 | Pierrefonds-Est | 6.6 | 0.4 |
| … | |||
| 35 | Crémazie | 11.8 | 0.6 |
| 36 | Nicolas-Viel | 11.9 | 0.3 |
| 37 | Saint-Sulpice | 12 | 0.6 |
| 38 | Anjou | 12 | 0.6 |
| 39 | Parc-Extension | 12 | 1 |
| … | |||
| 73 | Saint-Henri | 24.5 | 2 |
| 74 | Hochelaga | 26 | 1.4 |
| 75 | Saint-Louis | 34.9 | 1.1 |
| 76 | Vieux-Montréal | 55.7 | 0.9 |
| 77 | René-Lévesque | 69.2 | 6.3 |
SPVM, Actes criminels (CC BY 4.0, Ville de Montréal), 2023–2025, placed in the quartiers: vehicle theft, theft from vehicles, mischief, break and enter (property) and robbery. Points are moved to an intersection by the SPVM.
The SPVM’s neighbourhood figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025: property crime and robbery only.
Saint-Sulpice, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 81.4, and 2025 the lightest at 78.4. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Sulpice | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78.4 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 81.2 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 81.4 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-Sulpice, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Sulpice
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Sulpice | 18,557 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Sault-au-Récollet | 25,464 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Nicolas-Viel | 19,361 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Crémazie | 29,907 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Parc-Jarry | 15,699 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| La Visitation | 17,166 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Sainte-Lucie | 22,574 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
Its police also cover 6 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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 Saint-Sulpice
Is Saint-Sulpice safe?
Saint-Sulpice scores 80.3 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3; per 1,000 residents a year that is 15.4 violent incidents and 29.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Sulpice?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (11.8 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 8.2, and fraud, at 5.4, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Sulpice?
Barely: 81.4 in 2023, 78.4 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Sulpice’s crime do police solve?
About 32% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 49% of violent and 21% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city police’s, as reported for the whole city.
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) · SPVM, Actes criminels (CC BY 4.0, Ville de Montréal) · 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).