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Photo: O. Allard · Public domainRecorded crime in Saint-Barthélemy is close to typical for Canadian towns
Both towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Still, each year brought 11.9 violent incidents and 14.8 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). Its Safety Grade, B, rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. A Crime Severity Index of 58, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for 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. Shared with the rest of the D'Autray MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Barthélemy
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 53% of crime in Saint-Barthélemy ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 74% of violent crime and 36% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 90.3 on Saint-Barthélemy’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 45.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Barthélemy scores 58. 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-Barthélemy’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-Barthélemy’s figures
Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 41 | 0.9 | 50% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 13 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.3 | 0.1 | 94% |
| Other violent violations | 12 | 0.3 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 111 | 2.4 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 21.7 | 0.5 | 72% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 114.3 | 2.4 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 26.7 | 0.6 | 20% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 115.3 | 2.5 | 34% |
| Mischief | 89 | 1.9 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 11 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Administration of justice violations | 130.7 | 2.8 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14.3 | 0.3 | 70% |
| Drug violations | 44.7 | 1 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 129.7 | 2.8 | 89% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 67.3 | 1.4 | 21% |
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.
About 560 violent incidents a year across the police area of 47,600 residents that includes Saint-Barthélemy, 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 690 property crimes and 440 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Year by year in Saint-Barthélemy: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 65.8; 2023 was lightest, at 53.9. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Barthélemy | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 65.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 53.9 | 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-Barthélemy, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Barthélemy
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Barthélemy | 2,115 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Saint-Cuthbert | 1,865 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Maskinongé | 2,457 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Ursule | 1,363 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Norbert | 1,143 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Berthierville | 4,591 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier | 2,298 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Saint-Barthélemy. Maskinongé, 10.3 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 44.3 to 58. 4 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Barthélemy shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. 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-Barthélemy
Is Saint-Barthélemy safe?
Saint-Barthélemy scores 58 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 11.9 violent incidents and 14.8 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Barthélemy?
The three biggest groups are assault at 5.5, Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.8 and fraud at 4.1, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Barthélemy?
The index stayed close to where it was, 53.9 in 2023 and 54.4 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Barthélemy’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 53% of crime (74% of violent crime, 36% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Barthélemy 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).