Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0Recorded crime in Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez is close to typical for Canadian towns
The overall Safety Grade is B (#260 of 503 in Quebec), which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Police counts work out at 10.8 violent incidents and 14.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical town its size they are 12.9 and 31.2. Add to that, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 61.4 to 53.7. Split in two, the index gives 87.6 for violence and 46 for everything else (normally 85.7 and 62.8).
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Matawinie MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez
Lower than many towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez comes 13th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez scores 87.6 for violence and 46 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
Above-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 43% for Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez (59% violent, 32% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, 57.5. 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.
What’s behind Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez’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.
Its place: #260 of 503 in Quebec and #863 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.
Crime in Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez runs highest on motor vehicle theft (3 per 1,000 against 2.6). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 44.3 | 0.8 | 49% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 15.3 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.09 | 75% |
| Robbery | 6.3 | 0.1 | 75% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.09 | 80% |
| Other violent violations | 16 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Breaking and entering | 131.3 | 2.3 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 46 | 0.8 | 65% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 174 | 3 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 41.3 | 0.7 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 144.7 | 2.5 | 23% |
| Mischief | 96.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 19.3 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 92 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16.7 | 0.3 | 60% |
| Drug violations | 48 | 0.8 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 123 | 2.1 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 75 | 1.3 | 16% |
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.
Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 61.4, and its lowest 2025, at 53.7. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53.7 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 57.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 61.4 | 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-Alphonse-Rodriguez, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
By its index, Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez stands 13th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powassan Ontario | 3,657 | 15 | 22.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Saint-Isidore Quebec | 3,550 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Saint-Sulpice Quebec | 3,688 | 39.2 | 59 | A |
| 6 | Sainte-Claire Quebec | 3,724 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Saint-Gilles Quebec | 3,521 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Ascot Corner Quebec | 3,725 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| 11 | Pemberton British Columbia | 3,620 | 53 | 61.7 | B+ |
| 12 | Piedmont Quebec | 3,667 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| 13 | Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez Quebec | 3,639 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 14 | Beausejour Manitoba | 3,565 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| 15 | Electoral Area C, Nanaimo British Columbia | 3,733 | 58.9 | 58.4 | B− |
| 16 | Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap British Columbia | 3,672 | 65.5 | 44.5 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Opportunity No. 17 Alberta | 3,592 | 495.1 | 602.4 | 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-Alphonse-Rodriguez in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
58,800 residents, about 620 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez 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.
And about 840 property crimes, plus 420 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez | 3,639 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Sainte-Béatrix | 2,388 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare | 1,941 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Côme | 2,810 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Rawdon | 13,099 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Jean-de-Matha | 5,415 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie | 1,856 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
6 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. 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.
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez
Is Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez safe?
Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez scores 57.5 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5; per 1,000 residents a year that is 10.8 violent incidents and 14.7 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez?
Most often it is assault: 5.4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come Criminal Code traffic offences at 4 and motor vehicle theft at 3.
Is crime going up in Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez?
Down 13%: 61.4 in 2023, 53.7 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 43% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 59% of violent and 32% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez 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).