Photo: Metalex · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Esprit sees less crime per resident than 63% of Canadian towns
It grades B for safety on crime the police covering Saint-Esprit reported from 2023 to 2025. Each year brought 11.3 violent incidents and 12.4 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 54, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. From 2023 to 2025 its Crime Severity Index stayed steady, 53.5 then 56.1.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Montcalm MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Esprit
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 44% of crime in Saint-Esprit ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 60% of violent crime and 29% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Near the Quebec middle
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 54 in Saint-Esprit. Towns its size ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 93.4 on Saint-Esprit’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 38.7 against 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.
Inside Saint-Esprit’s B for safety
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.
Which crimes make up Saint-Esprit’s figures
Fraud and theft under $5,000 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 | 67.3 | 0.9 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19.3 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 11 | 0.1 | 36% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 10.3 | 0.1 | 97% |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Breaking and entering | 125 | 1.7 | 21% |
| Possession of stolen property | 30.3 | 0.4 | 40% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 197.7 | 2.7 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 53 | 0.7 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 178.7 | 2.4 | 18% |
| Mischief | 116 | 1.6 | 20% |
| Weapons violations | 18.7 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Administration of justice violations | 200 | 2.7 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15 | 0.2 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 39 | 0.5 | 83% |
| Impaired driving | 112.3 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 114.3 | 1.6 | 13% |
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-Esprit, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 56.1 in 2025, having been lowest in 2024 at 52.3. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Esprit | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 52.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 53.5 | 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-Esprit, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Saint-Esprit is part of, 74,700 residents, recorded about 830 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.
Add about 910 property crimes and 550 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-Esprit
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Esprit | 2,313 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Alexis | 1,462 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan | 5,675 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Sainte-Julienne | 12,990 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Lin--Laurentides | 26,673 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Jacques | 4,830 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé | 1,296 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
6 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. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “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-Esprit 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. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
Questions about safety in Saint-Esprit
Is Saint-Esprit safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Saint-Esprit comes to 54. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 11.3 violent incidents and 12.4 property crimes. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Esprit?
Top of the list is assault (5.7 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.5, and other Criminal Code offences, at 3.5, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Esprit?
Not much: the index went from 53.5 in 2023 to 56.1 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Esprit’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 44% of crime (60% of violent crime, 29% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Esprit 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).