Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Constant records less crime per resident than 83% of Canadian towns
On the record of crime the police covering Saint-Constant reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes A− for safety: #78 of 503 in Quebec. What’s more, its police logs show 9.7 violent incidents and 13.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical town its size the numbers are 12.0 and 30.5. Split in two, the index gives 59.8 for violence and 34.6 for everything else (normally 89.4 and 56). Each of the 3 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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Roussillon Region service area).
What stands out about safety in Saint-Constant
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Saint-Constant is 7th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Under the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Constant scores 41.6. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 45% of Saint-Constant’s crime, weighted by seriousness (66% of violent crime, 31% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Saint-Constant: A− for safety, and why
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.
Its place: #78 of 503 in Quebec and #319 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Saint-Constant’s crime by kind
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 20 | 0.2 | 54% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 25.7 | 0.2 | 98% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 18 | 0.1 | 67% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 18 | 0.1 | 93% |
| Other violent violations | 59.7 | 0.5 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 141 | 1.2 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 22 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 178 | 1.5 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 33.7 | 0.3 | 27% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 466 | 3.9 | 32% |
| Mischief | 177 | 1.5 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 12.3 | 0.1 | 81% |
| Administration of justice violations | 255.7 | 2.1 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 52.3 | 0.4 | 69% |
| Drug violations | 86 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 159 | 1.3 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 198.7 | 1.6 | 27% |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Among 40 towns its size, Saint-Constant places 7th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LaSalle Ontario | 36,452 | 22.9 | 17.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Chambly Quebec | 31,870 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 5 | Sainte-Julie Quebec | 30,981 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 6 | Rockland Ontario | 30,375 | 38.2 | 56.7 | A |
| 7 | Saint-Constant Quebec | 32,124 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 8 | La Prairie Quebec | 27,159 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 9 | Magog Quebec | 30,764 | 42 | 55.3 | A− |
| 10 | Okotoks Alberta | 33,482 | 42.5 | 48.7 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Saint-Georges Quebec | 33,881 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| 14 | Sainte-Thérèse Quebec | 27,253 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| 15 | Alma Quebec | 30,659 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Thetford Mines Quebec | 27,155 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Whitehorse Yukon | 34,129 | 171.7 | 196.7 | D |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Saint-Constant in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 1,170 violent incidents a year across the police area of 122,100 residents that includes Saint-Constant, 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 1,630 property crimes and 840 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-Constant: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
At 44.1, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 39.8. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Constant | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 44.1 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 40.8 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-Constant, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Saint-Constant
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Constant | 32,124 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Catherine | 17,782 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Delson | 8,802 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Candiac | 24,920 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Sault-Saint-Louis | 47,270 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Cecil-P.-Newman | 34,965 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Desmarchais-Crawford | 18,505 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Saint-Constant. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 3 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared policing. A regional or shared police service reports one set of figures for every municipality it covers, Saint-Constant included.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. 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.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Constant
Is Saint-Constant safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint-Constant at 41.6 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people sit at 66 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 9.7 and property crimes at 13.5 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Constant?
Most often it is fraud: 4.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 4.4 and theft under $5,000 at 3.9.
Is crime going up in Saint-Constant?
Barely: 40.8 in 2023, 39.8 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Constant’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 45% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 66% of violent crime and 31% of the rest, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Constant 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).