Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Saint-Benjamin than in 95% of Canadian towns
Counting crime the police covering Saint-Benjamin reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A+ for safety. Its violent half comes to 48.9 and its non-violent half to 23.9, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. The yearly rates were 7.4 violent incidents and 8.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Each of the 4 towns on its borders with figures records more 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 Etchemins MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Benjamin
Above-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 59% for Saint-Benjamin (79% violent, 43% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Lighter than Quebec’s middle
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 30.8 in Saint-Benjamin. Towns its size ↓
Easing since 2023
From 33.3 in 2023 to 28 in 2025: that is Saint-Benjamin’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Saint-Benjamin scores 48.9 for violence and 23.9 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: A+ for Saint-Benjamin
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Saint-Benjamin’s index dropped 16%
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (33.3); the low point came in 2025, at 28. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Benjamin | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 31.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 33.3 | 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-Benjamin, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 130 violent incidents a year across the police area of 17,700 residents that includes Saint-Benjamin, 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 140 a year and other violations 79 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in Saint-Benjamin, type by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.10 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 23.3 | 1.3 | 40% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13 | 0.7 | 21% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 24.3 | 1.4 | 41% |
| Mischief | 19.3 | 1.1 | 41% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Administration of justice violations | 26.3 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 4.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Impaired driving | 16.3 | 0.9 | 86% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 13.3 | 0.8 | 25% |
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-Benjamin
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Benjamin | 1,267 | 30.8 | 48.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Prosper | 4,042 | 30.8 | 48.9 | A+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Pins | 1,935 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne | 1,460 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Beauceville | 6,228 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Saint-Georges | 33,881 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Lac-Etchemin | 4,089 | 30.8 | 48.9 | A+ |
Saint-Benjamin has the lowest index of the places around it. The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Solved cases. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- How serious, not how safe. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Benjamin among them.
Questions about safety in Saint-Benjamin
Is Saint-Benjamin safe?
Saint-Benjamin’s Crime Severity Index is 30.8 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 7.4 violent incidents and 8.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Benjamin?
Most often it is assault: 3.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 2.9 and other Criminal Code offences at 2.1.
Is crime going up in Saint-Benjamin?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 16%, to 28 from 33.3.
How much of Saint-Benjamin’s crime do police solve?
59%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 79% and non-violent crime at 43%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Benjamin 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).