Photo: DomLemLali · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Alexandre is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Overall, Saint-Alexandre grades B− for safety (#285 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Both towns on its borders with figures record more crime per resident. Saint-Alexandre’s police logs show 13.3 violent incidents and 12.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical town its size the numbers are 12.9 and 31.2. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 62.8 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size.
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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Haut-Richelieu MRC).
What stands out about safety in Saint-Alexandre
More severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Saint-Alexandre 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
Counting up from the lowest index, Saint-Alexandre is 18th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
Police cleared 44% of Saint-Alexandre’s crime, weighted by seriousness (69% of violent crime, 30% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Alexandre scores 62.8. 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.
The grade: B− for Saint-Alexandre
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.
Year by year in Saint-Alexandre: up 32%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 71, with 2023 the lightest at 54. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Alexandre | 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 Saint-Alexandre, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Saint-Alexandre’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Alexandre 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.
By its index, Saint-Alexandre stands 18th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grey Manitoba | 2,655 | 27.2 | 39.3 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Saint-Bernard Quebec | 2,680 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 4 | Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse Quebec | 2,739 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| 5 | Eastman Quebec | 2,706 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 6 | Saint-Mathieu Quebec | 2,642 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Souris Manitoba | 2,737 | 54.2 | 56.4 | B |
| 16 | Plessisville Quebec | 2,718 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| 17 | Saint-Léonard-d'Aston Quebec | 2,662 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 18 | Saint-Alexandre Quebec | 2,685 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| 19 | Division No. 7, Subdivision E Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,632 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| 20 | Wickham Quebec | 2,745 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| 21 | Berwick Nova Scotia | 2,631 | 72.3 | 91.5 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | La Ronge Saskatchewan | 2,668 | 715.9 | 1,169 | 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 Saint-Alexandre in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
24,900 residents, about 330 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Alexandre belongs to, 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 Saint-Alexandre
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Alexandre | 2,685 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sabrevois | 2,307 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Sainte-Sabine | 1,123 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville | 1,540 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Henryville | 1,664 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Mont-Saint-Grégoire | 3,158 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Farnham | 11,315 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Saint-Alexandre. Same police, same number: 4 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
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Alexandre alone.
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. 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 Saint-Alexandre
Is Saint-Alexandre safe?
Saint-Alexandre measures 62.8 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 13.3 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Alexandre?
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 Saint-Alexandre?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 32%, to 71 from 54.
How much of Saint-Alexandre’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 44% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 69% of violent crime and 30% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Alexandre 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).