Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Saint-Benoît-Labre records less crime than 73% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 81.3 for violence and 34.7 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). That puts it at B+ for safety, judged on crime the police covering Saint-Benoît-Labre reported from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, its police logs show 10.9 violent incidents and 10.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2.
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: the Beauce-Sartigan MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Benoît-Labre
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 64% of crime in Saint-Benoît-Labre ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 82% of violent crime and 48% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 81.3 on Saint-Benoît-Labre’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 34.7 against 62.8. By type ↓
Easing since 2023
In 2023 the index in Saint-Benoît-Labre stood at 50.7, by 2025 at 42. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
About the Quebec norm
Saint-Benoît-Labre’s index of 47.7 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-Benoît-Labre’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.
From 2023 to 2025, Saint-Benoît-Labre’s index dropped 17%
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (50.7); the low point came in 2025, at 42. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Benoît-Labre | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 50.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 50.7 | 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-Benoît-Labre, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Saint-Benoît-Labre is part of, 55,400 residents, recorded about 600 violent incidents a year (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.
And about 580 property crimes, plus 500 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Which crimes make up Saint-Benoît-Labre’s figures
Fraud and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 28.3 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 14.3 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 7.3 | 0.1 | 92% |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 20.7 | 0.4 | 77% |
| Breaking and entering | 62.3 | 1.1 | 52% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.3 | 0.10 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 30.7 | 0.6 | 34% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.3 | 0.2 | 33% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 124.7 | 2.3 | 46% |
| Mischief | 97.3 | 1.8 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 17.3 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Administration of justice violations | 142 | 2.6 | 97% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15.7 | 0.3 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 83.7 | 1.5 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 107.7 | 2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 95.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
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-Benoît-Labre
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Benoît-Labre | 1,655 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Georges | 33,881 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley | 1,610 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Victor | 2,344 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Saint-René | 1,035 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce | 2,575 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Pins | 1,935 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
5 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
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Benoît-Labre among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Saint-Benoît-Labre
Is Saint-Benoît-Labre safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Saint-Benoît-Labre comes to 47.7. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 10.9 violent incidents and 10.6 property crimes. 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-Benoît-Labre?
Top of the list is assault (5 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 4.2, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 4.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Benoît-Labre?
It went down 17% between 2023 and 2025, from 50.7 to 42.
How much of Saint-Benoît-Labre’s crime do police solve?
64%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 82% and non-violent crime at 48%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Benoît-Labre 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).