Photo: Pierre Bona · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Armand records more crime per resident than 61% of Canadian towns
From 2023 to 2025 its Crime Severity Index stayed steady, 64.4 then 67.4. The grade is C+, built on crime the police covering Saint-Armand reported from 2023 to 2025. Out of every 1,000 residents, 12.4 violent incidents and 12.4 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its 3 neighbours with figures all 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Brome-Missisquoi MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Armand
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Saint-Armand’s index of 72.8 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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-Armand’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.
Which crimes make up Saint-Armand’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Armand runs highest on Cannabis Act offences (5 per 1,000 against 0.05) and drug offences (6.7 per 1,000 against 0.7). Fraud 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 | 58.3 | 1 | 41% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 16 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 4.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.09 | 94% |
| Other violent violations | 13 | 0.2 | 44% |
| Breaking and entering | 104.7 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5 | 0.09 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 43.7 | 0.8 | 23% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 22.7 | 0.4 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 144.3 | 2.5 | 37% |
| Mischief | 118.7 | 2.1 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 9.3 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 126 | 2.2 | 97% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 30.7 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Drug violations | 385.7 | 6.7 | 18% |
| Impaired driving | 123.7 | 2.2 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 85 | 1.5 | 14% |
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-Armand, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 86.7; 2023 was lightest, at 64.4. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Armand | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 86.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 64.4 | 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-Armand, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 710 violent incidents a year across the police area of 58,000 residents that includes Saint-Armand, 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 710 a year and other violations 850 (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-Armand
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Armand | 1,241 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| Venise-en-Québec | 2,252 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Bedford | 2,845 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville | 1,274 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Henryville | 1,664 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Saint-Armand. Closest is Venise-en-Québec, 9.5 km away, at 62.8 to 72.8 here. One place nearby is policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Armand among them.
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Saint-Armand
Is Saint-Armand safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint-Armand at 72.8 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 12.4 and property crimes at 12.4 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Armand?
Top of the list is drug offences (6.7 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 6, and Cannabis Act offences, at 5, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Armand?
Not much: the index went from 64.4 in 2023 to 67.4 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Armand’s crime do police solve?
38%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 57% and non-violent crime at 27%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Armand 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).