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Photo: Unknown Unknown · Public domainFewer crimes per resident are recorded in Saint-Alexis than in 63% of Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 54, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Steady over the three years, the index read 53.5 in 2023 and 56.1 in 2025. Graded on crime the police covering Saint-Alexis reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores B for safety. Per 1,000 residents a year, 11.3 violent incidents and 12.4 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Montcalm MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Alexis
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Alexis’s police clear 44%, 60% of violent crime and 29% of the rest. Questions ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 54 in Saint-Alexis. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
Saint-Alexis’s index splits into violent crime, 93.4 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 38.7 against 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.
What’s behind Saint-Alexis’s grade
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-Alexis, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 56.1 in 2025, having been lowest in 2024 at 52.3. 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-Alexis | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 52.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 53.5 | 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-Alexis, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 830 violent incidents a year across the police area of 74,700 residents that includes Saint-Alexis, 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.
Add about 910 property crimes and 550 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
What police record in Saint-Alexis, by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 67.3 | 0.9 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19.3 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 11 | 0.1 | 36% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 10.3 | 0.1 | 97% |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Breaking and entering | 125 | 1.7 | 21% |
| Possession of stolen property | 30.3 | 0.4 | 40% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 197.7 | 2.7 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 53 | 0.7 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 178.7 | 2.4 | 18% |
| Mischief | 116 | 1.6 | 20% |
| Weapons violations | 18.7 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Administration of justice violations | 200 | 2.7 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15 | 0.2 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 39 | 0.5 | 83% |
| Impaired driving | 112.3 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 114.3 | 1.6 | 13% |
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.
Crime in the places around Saint-Alexis
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Alexis | 1,462 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Sainte-Julienne | 12,990 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Jacques | 4,830 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Esprit | 2,313 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Liguori | 2,268 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan | 5,675 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé | 1,296 | 54 | 93.4 | 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
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Alexis shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- What clearance means. 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 Saint-Alexis
Is Saint-Alexis safe?
Police-reported crime in Saint-Alexis scores 54 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 11.3 violent incidents and 12.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Alexis?
Top of the list is assault (5.7 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.5, and other Criminal Code offences, at 3.5, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Alexis?
Hardly at all, from 53.5 in 2023 to 56.1 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Alexis’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 44% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 60% of violent crime and 29% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Alexis 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).