Photo: Gilles Douaire · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Saint-Édouard records more crime than 85% of Canadian towns
Its letter for safety is C−, worked out from crime the police covering Saint-Édouard reported over 2023 to 2025. The index fell from 101.1 in 2023 to 86.1 in 2025. Split in two, the index gives 80.3 for violence and 131.9 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Recorded violent incidents ran at 12.3 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 11.8, against 12.0 and 31.2 in 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Jardins de Napierville MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Édouard
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Saint-Édouard 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
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 116.5 in Saint-Édouard. Towns its size ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Saint-Édouard’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.
The C− for Saint-Édouard, and how it is built
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-Édouard’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Édouard 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.
Saint-Édouard, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 162.2, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 86.1. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Édouard | 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-Édouard, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 400 violent incidents a year in the 32,600-resident police area around Saint-Édouard, 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 380 property crimes and 1,800 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Édouard
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Édouard | 1,438 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Michel | 3,672 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington | 1,996 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur | 1,907 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Rémi | 9,557 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville | 1,786 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Napierville | 4,187 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
6 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Édouard alone.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Saint-Édouard
Is Saint-Édouard safe?
Its police recorded 12.3 violent incidents and 11.8 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Saint-Édouard a Crime Severity Index of 116.5. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Édouard?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 8.7, drug offences at 7.8 and assault at 6.2, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Édouard?
No: the index fell 15%, from 101.1 in 2023 to 86.1 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Édouard’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 38%: 69% for violent crime and 30% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Édouard 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).