Photo: Raymixx · CC BY 3.0Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur sees more crime per resident than 85% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 80.3 and other offences to 131.9, beside norms of 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+. The grade is C−, built on crime the police covering Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur reported from 2023 to 2025. In 2023 the index stood at 101.1; it fell to 86.1 in 2025.
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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Jardins de Napierville MRC).
What stands out about safety in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur 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 ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur scores 116.5. Towns its size ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur’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.
Inside Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur’s C− 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.
Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur 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-Jacques-le-Mineur, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 162.2; 2025 was lightest, at 86.1. Set beside it, 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-Jacques-le-Mineur | 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-Jacques-le-Mineur, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur is part of, 32,600 residents, recorded about 400 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 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-Jacques-le-Mineur
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur | 1,907 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Napierville | 4,187 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Édouard | 1,438 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Mathieu | 2,642 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Saint-Philippe | 8,674 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville | 1,786 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu | 2,165 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
The places around Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Saint-Mathieu (9.7 km away), scores 41.6 against 116.5. 3 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
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur shares it with its neighbours.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur
Is Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur safe?
With 12.3 violent incidents and 11.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur comes to 116.5 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (8.7 per 1,000 residents a year); drug offences, at 7.8, and assault, at 6.2, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur?
Down 15%: 101.1 in 2023, 86.1 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur’s crime do police solve?
38%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 69% and non-violent crime at 30%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur 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).