Photo: Gordalmighty · Public domainFewer crimes per resident are recorded in Saint-Barnabé-Sud than in 68% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 70.8 and its non-violent half to 41.7, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. For every 1,000 residents, 9.7 violent incidents and 14.0 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. Counting crime the police covering Saint-Barnabé-Sud reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B+ for safety. Add to that, in 2023 the index stood at 48.6; it fell to 45.9 in 2025.
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: one figure for all of the Maskoutains MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Barnabé-Sud
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 49% of Saint-Barnabé-Sud’s crime, weighted by seriousness (67% of violent crime, 38% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Barnabé-Sud, 49.7. 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 sits behind Saint-Barnabé-Sud’s B+
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.
94,500 residents, about 910 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Barnabé-Sud 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.
Add about 1,310 property crimes and 730 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Saint-Barnabé-Sud, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 54.6; 2025 was the lightest, at 45.9. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Barnabé-Sud | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 54.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 48.6 | 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-Barnabé-Sud, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Saint-Barnabé-Sud’s crime by kind
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.00 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 52.7 | 0.6 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 21.3 | 0.2 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.06 | 51% |
| Robbery | 18 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 10.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 20.3 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Breaking and entering | 171.7 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.7 | 0.2 | 79% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 125.7 | 1.3 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 41.7 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 403 | 4.3 | 36% |
| Mischief | 165.7 | 1.8 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 15.7 | 0.2 | 83% |
| Administration of justice violations | 181 | 1.9 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 30.7 | 0.3 | 79% |
| Drug violations | 84.7 | 0.9 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 135 | 1.4 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 216.3 | 2.3 | 11% |
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-Barnabé-Sud
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Barnabé-Sud | 1,053 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Simon | 1,474 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Jude | 1,402 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Hugues | 1,414 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Hyacinthe | 60,874 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| La Présentation | 2,696 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Liboire | 3,123 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 6 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Barnabé-Sud shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Saint-Barnabé-Sud
Is Saint-Barnabé-Sud safe?
With 9.7 violent incidents and 14 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Saint-Barnabé-Sud comes to 49.7 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Barnabé-Sud?
Most often it is assault: 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 4.3 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.1.
Is crime going up in Saint-Barnabé-Sud?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 5%, to 45.9 from 48.6.
How much of Saint-Barnabé-Sud’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 49%: 67% for violent crime and 38% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Barnabé-Sud and everywhere else it polices.
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).