Photo: Bertrand Latour - Groupe Facebook : Je viens de Saint-Joseph · Public domainRecorded crime in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel is close to typical for Canadian towns
Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s overall Safety Grade is B: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. By contrast, for every 1,000 residents, 14.2 violent incidents and 16.9 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 60.6 in 2023 to 56.1 by 2025. Split in two, the index gives 84.9 for violence and 48.7 for everything else (normally 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Pierre-De Saurel MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel
Police clear more here
Police cleared 47% of Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s crime, weighted by seriousness (65% of violent crime, 35% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Near the Quebec middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel scores 58.7. Towns its size ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’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.
Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s crime by kind
Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 32.3 | 0.6 | 54% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.2 | 82% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 18.7 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Breaking and entering | 111.3 | 2.1 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 13 | 0.2 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 76.7 | 1.4 | 18% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 21 | 0.4 | 18% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 272 | 5.1 | 35% |
| Mischief | 149.7 | 2.8 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 10 | 0.2 | 77% |
| Administration of justice violations | 261.3 | 4.9 | 98% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 85.3 | 1.6 | 63% |
| Impaired driving | 88.7 | 1.7 | 92% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 126.7 | 2.4 | 12% |
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-Joseph-de-Sorel, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 60.6; the lightest was 2025, at 56.1. 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-Joseph-de-Sorel | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 59.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 60.6 | 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-Joseph-de-Sorel, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
54,100 residents, about 760 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel 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 900 property crimes, plus 620 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-Joseph-de-Sorel
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel | 1,602 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Sorel-Tracy | 36,537 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola | 2,170 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Berthierville | 4,591 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel | 2,770 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel | 2,599 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier | 2,298 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel has the highest index of the places around it. Just 2.3 km away, Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola comes to 58, against 58.7. 3 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. 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.
Questions about safety in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel
Is Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel safe?
Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel scores 58.7 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 14.2 violent incidents and 16.9 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel?
Most often it is assault: 7.4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 5.7 and theft under $5,000 at 5.1.
Is crime going up in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 7%, to 56.1 from 60.6.
How much of Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s crime do police solve?
About 47% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 65% of violent and 35% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel 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).