Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Anicet sees more crime per resident than 86% of Canadian towns
Counting crime the police covering Saint-Anicet reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety: #498 of 503 in Quebec. Behind the grade sit 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Violence accounts for an index of 141 and other offences for 113, against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8. All 3 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident.
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. Measured across the Haut-Saint-Laurent MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Anicet
More people here than live here
With 32% of its homes not lived in all year, Saint-Anicet counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 120.3 in Saint-Anicet. Towns its size ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Saint-Anicet stands 38th, the lowest first. 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.
Saint-Anicet: D for safety, and why
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: #498 of 503 in Quebec and #2,281 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-Anicet, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Anicet runs highest on assault (9.3 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 25 | 1.1 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.2 | 86% |
| Other violent violations | 11 | 0.5 | 66% |
| Breaking and entering | 49 | 2.1 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.3 | 0.4 | 35% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 37.7 | 1.6 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10.3 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 44 | 1.9 | 36% |
| Mischief | 57.7 | 2.4 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 14.3 | 0.6 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 70.7 | 3 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 86.7 | 3.7 | 20% |
| Drug violations | 33.3 | 1.4 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 48.3 | 2.1 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 29 | 1.2 | 28% |
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-Anicet stands 38th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perry Ontario | 2,866 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| 2 | Saint-Elzéar Quebec | 2,842 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 3 | Rivière-Beaudette Quebec | 2,806 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Laurier-Station Quebec | 2,838 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| 7 | Yamachiche Quebec | 2,801 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 35 | Rosthern No. 403 Saskatchewan | 2,791 | 99.3 | 115.6 | C− |
| 36 | Senneterre Quebec | 2,832 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| 37 | Harbour Grace Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,872 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| 38 | Saint-Anicet Quebec | 2,854 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| 39 | Sicamous British Columbia | 2,854 | 145.9 | 184.8 | D |
| 40 | Athabasca Alberta | 2,887 | 165 | 138.6 | 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-Anicet in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 450 violent incidents a year in the 24,100-resident police area around Saint-Anicet, 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 930 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Year by year in Saint-Anicet: down 10%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (160.3) and 2025 the trough (95). The typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Anicet | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 160.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 105.6 | 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-Anicet, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Saint-Anicet
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Anicet | 2,854 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Rivière-Beaudette | 2,806 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Sainte-Barbe | 1,993 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Godmanchester | 1,590 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Saint-Zotique | 10,445 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Huntingdon | 3,001 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| South Glengarry | 14,355 | 36.9 | 47.2 | A |
Saint-Anicet has the highest index of the places around it. Just 11.8 km away, Rivière-Beaudette comes to 39.2, against 120.3. The comparison skips 3 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Anicet shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Saint-Anicet
Is Saint-Anicet safe?
Its police recorded 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Saint-Anicet a Crime Severity Index of 120.3. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Anicet?
Police record assault most, 9.3 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (7.6) and fraud (4).
Is crime going up in Saint-Anicet?
No: the index fell 10%, from 105.6 in 2023 to 95 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Anicet’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 38% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 71% of violent and 20% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Anicet and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).