Photo: Gath · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Élie-de-Caxton has less crime per resident than 79% of Canadian towns
Annual rates stand at 9.3 violent incidents and 12.6 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, from 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Saint-Élie-de-Caxton reported put it at A− for safety. Its violent half comes to 60.8 and its non-violent half to 38, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8.
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 for the Maskinongé MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton
A high clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Élie-de-Caxton’s police clear 51%, 79% of violent crime and 33% of the rest. Questions ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Élie-de-Caxton scores 44.3. Towns its size ↓
Heavier than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton stood at 37.1, by 2025 at 45.2. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
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-Élie-de-Caxton’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-Élie-de-Caxton’s index climbed 22%
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 50.5; 2023 was the lightest, at 37.1. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Élie-de-Caxton | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 50.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 37.1 | 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-Élie-de-Caxton, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, by type
Fraud and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 21 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10.7 | 0.3 | 91% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Breaking and entering | 77.3 | 2 | 19% |
| Possession of stolen property | 13 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 72.3 | 1.9 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18.7 | 0.5 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 88.3 | 2.3 | 28% |
| Mischief | 69 | 1.8 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 7.7 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 78.7 | 2 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 0.3 | 77% |
| Drug violations | 28.3 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 66 | 1.7 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 46.7 | 1.2 | 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.
38,800 residents, about 360 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Élie-de-Caxton 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.
Add about 480 property crimes and 260 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-Élie-de-Caxton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Élie-de-Caxton | 2,062 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Charette | 1,178 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Paulin | 1,659 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Boniface | 5,405 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Barnabé | 1,234 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès | 4,675 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc | 1,598 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 6 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Élie-de-Caxton alone.
Questions about safety in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton
Is Saint-Élie-de-Caxton safe?
Saint-Élie-de-Caxton’s Crime Severity Index is 44.3 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 9.3 violent incidents and 12.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton?
The three biggest groups are assault at 3.9, fraud at 3.5 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.4, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton?
It went up 22% between 2023 and 2025, from 37.1 to 45.2.
How much of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 51% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 79% of violent crime and 33% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Élie-de-Caxton 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).