Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Crime per resident in Saint-Albert runs lower than in 61% of Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 55, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. Still, the local count comes to 14.7 violent incidents and 16.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its Safety Grade is B, on crime the police covering Saint-Albert reported from 2023 to 2025. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 54.6 to 51.6.
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 Arthabaska MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Albert
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 50% of Saint-Albert’s crime, weighted by seriousness (65% of violent crime, 37% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Saint-Albert’s index of 55 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on violence
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Saint-Albert’s two halves part ways: 86.5 for violence (typical 86.4) and 42.9 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The B for Saint-Albert, and how it is built
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.
Saint-Albert’s crime by kind
Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 56.7 | 0.7 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 21 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.07 | 89% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 11.3 | 0.1 | 91% |
| Other violent violations | 29 | 0.4 | 63% |
| Breaking and entering | 125.7 | 1.6 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.3 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 111.7 | 1.4 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 24 | 0.3 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 383.7 | 5 | 44% |
| Mischief | 177 | 2.3 | 31% |
| Weapons violations | 14.3 | 0.2 | 89% |
| Administration of justice violations | 228.3 | 3 | 82% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 26 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Drug violations | 88.3 | 1.1 | 76% |
| Impaired driving | 158.3 | 2.1 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 149 | 1.9 | 9% |
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.
Saint-Albert, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 58.8; 2025 was the lightest, at 51.6. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Albert | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 58.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 54.6 | 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 Saint-Albert, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Saint-Albert is part of, 77,600 residents, recorded about 1,130 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.
Property crime adds about 1,250 a year and other violations 710 (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 Saint-Albert
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Albert | 1,744 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Saint-Valère | 1,187 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Warwick | 4,939 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Victoriaville | 49,863 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton | 1,647 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska | 3,307 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Tingwick | 1,567 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
6 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Albert among them.
- Reading the number. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Saint-Albert
Is Saint-Albert safe?
Saint-Albert scores 55 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 14.7 violent incidents and 16.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Albert?
Police record assault most, 7.1 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (5.1) and theft under $5,000 (5).
Is crime going up in Saint-Albert?
It went down 6% between 2023 and 2025, from 54.6 to 51.6.
How much of Saint-Albert’s crime do police solve?
About 50% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 65% of violent and 37% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Albert 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).