Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville records more crime per resident than 85% of Canadian towns
Both towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Add to that, the local count comes to 12.3 violent incidents and 11.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. It grades C− for safety on crime the police covering Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville reported from 2023 to 2025. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 80.3 and 131.9.
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 Jardins de Napierville MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville records 7.8 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Over the Quebec norm
Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville’s index of 116.5 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville’s two halves part ways: 80.3 for violence (typical 86.4) and 131.9 for the rest (typical 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.
What’s behind Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville’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.
Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville runs highest on Cannabis Act offences (5.8 per 1,000 against 0.05) and drug offences (7.8 per 1,000 against 0.7). Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 25 | 0.8 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.3 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6.7 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Breaking and entering | 41 | 1.3 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 12.3 | 0.4 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 48.7 | 1.5 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18.7 | 0.6 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 73 | 2.3 | 30% |
| Mischief | 59.3 | 1.8 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 0.2 | 80% |
| Administration of justice violations | 55.7 | 1.7 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 206 | 6.4 | 8% |
| Drug violations | 253 | 7.8 | 14% |
| Impaired driving | 67.7 | 2.1 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 40.7 | 1.3 | 15% |
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.
In Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, down 15% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 162.2, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 86.1. 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-Cyprien-de-Napierville | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 162.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 101.1 | 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-Cyprien-de-Napierville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
32,600 residents, about 400 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville 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.
And about 380 property crimes, plus 1,800 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville | 1,786 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Napierville | 4,187 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington | 1,996 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle | 1,655 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Édouard | 1,438 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Lacolle | 2,806 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu | 2,165 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville has the highest index of the places around it. Just 10.3 km away, Lacolle comes to 62.8, against 116.5. The comparison skips 4 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville among them.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- Severity, weighed. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville
Is Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville safe?
Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville scores 116.5 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 12.3 violent incidents and 11.8 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 8.7 per 1,000 residents a year, then drug offences (7.8) and assault (6.2).
Is crime going up in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville?
Down 15%: 101.1 in 2023, 86.1 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 38% of crime (69% of violent crime, 30% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville 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).