Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Étienne-des-Grès has less crime per resident than 79% of Canadian towns
On crime the police covering Saint-Étienne-des-Grès reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A− for safety: #107 of 503 in Quebec. Violence and property crime split as 9.3 violent incidents and 12.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Split in two, the index gives 60.8 for violence and 38 for everything else (normally 85.7 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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Maskinongé MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Étienne-des-Grès
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 51% for Saint-Étienne-des-Grès (79% violent, 33% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Saint-Étienne-des-Grès is 9th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Étienne-des-Grès scores 44.3. Towns its size ↓
Rising since 2023
In 2023 the index in Saint-Étienne-des-Grès stood at 37.1, by 2025 at 45.2. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. 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-Étienne-des-Grès’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.
Its place: #107 of 503 in Quebec and #379 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Crime in Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, type by type
Mischief and theft under $5,000 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 to 10,000 people.
In Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, up 22% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 50.5; 2023 was lightest, at 37.1. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Étienne-des-Grès | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 50.5 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 37.1 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Among 40 towns its size, Saint-Étienne-des-Grès places 9th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand Valley Ontario | 4,759 | 26.4 | 20.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Saint-Anselme Quebec | 4,534 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| 7 | Saint-Agapit Quebec | 4,817 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| 8 | Château-Richer Quebec | 4,732 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| 9 | Saint-Étienne-des-Grès Quebec | 4,675 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| 10 | Neuville Quebec | 4,579 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| 11 | Electoral Area D, Columbia-Shuswap British Columbia | 4,829 | 45 | 53.2 | A− |
| 12 | Marmora Ontario | 4,761 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| 13 | Saint-Antonin Quebec | 4,633 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu Quebec | 4,598 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
| 18 | Berthierville Quebec | 4,591 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare Quebec | 4,615 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Battleford Saskatchewan | 4,657 | 349.1 | 479.8 | 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-Étienne-des-Grès in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
38,800 residents, about 360 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Étienne-des-Grès 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 480 property crimes, plus 260 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-Étienne-des-Grès
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès | 4,675 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Barnabé | 1,234 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Boniface | 5,405 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel | 6,613 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Charette | 1,178 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Élie-de-Caxton | 2,062 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Shawinigan | 51,739 | 76 | 113.4 | C+ |
1 of the 2 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Saint-Étienne-des-Grès. The nearest of them, Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel (9.4 km away), scores 39.2 against 44.3. 4 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
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- 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. 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. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Étienne-des-Grès shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Saint-Étienne-des-Grès
Is Saint-Étienne-des-Grès safe?
Saint-Étienne-des-Grès’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. Set that beside 68.5, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Étienne-des-Grès?
Most often it is assault: 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 3.5 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.4.
Is crime going up in Saint-Étienne-des-Grès?
Yes: the index rose 22%, from 37.1 in 2023 to 45.2 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Étienne-des-Grès’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 its size.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Étienne-des-Grès 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).