Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Saint-Léon-de-Standon records less crime than 85% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 73 and other offences for 26.8, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Annual rates stand at 8.5 violent incidents and 9.0 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, its Safety Grade is A, on crime the police covering Saint-Léon-de-Standon reported from 2023 to 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Bellechasse MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Léon-de-Standon
More crime solved
Police cleared 55% of Saint-Léon-de-Standon’s crime, weighted by seriousness (72% of violent crime, 39% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Saint-Léon-de-Standon’s two halves part ways: 73 for violence (typical 86.4) and 26.8 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Below Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 39.7 in Saint-Léon-de-Standon. Towns its size ↓
Heavier than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Saint-Léon-de-Standon moved from 34.9 to 42.3, while 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.
The A for Saint-Léon-de-Standon, and how it is built
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.
In Saint-Léon-de-Standon, up 21% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 42.3, with 2023 the lightest at 34.9. 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-Léon-de-Standon | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 42 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 34.9 | 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-Léon-de-Standon, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Saint-Léon-de-Standon is part of, 39,600 residents, recorded about 340 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.
Property crime adds about 350 a year and other violations 200 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Saint-Léon-de-Standon’s crime by kind
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 19 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 10.3 | 0.3 | 58% |
| Breaking and entering | 57.3 | 1.5 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.1 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 39.3 | 1 | 39% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 0.2 | 34% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 56.7 | 1.4 | 32% |
| Mischief | 58.3 | 1.5 | 32% |
| Weapons violations | 9.7 | 0.2 | 69% |
| Administration of justice violations | 47 | 1.2 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12 | 0.3 | 61% |
| Drug violations | 20.3 | 0.5 | 92% |
| Impaired driving | 68.7 | 1.7 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 28 | 0.7 | 33% |
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.
Crime in the places around Saint-Léon-de-Standon
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Léon-de-Standon | 1,033 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Malachie | 1,755 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Frampton | 1,374 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Lac-Etchemin | 4,089 | 30.8 | 48.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne | 1,460 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Saints-Anges | 1,364 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Damien-de-Buckland | 1,840 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
Nearby, 3 of 4 places with their own figures have a lower index than Saint-Léon-de-Standon. Just 13 km away, Frampton comes to 37.7, against 39.7. 2 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Léon-de-Standon alone.
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Léon-de-Standon
Is Saint-Léon-de-Standon safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 39.7 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Saint-Léon-de-Standon stands, with 8.5 violent and 9 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Léon-de-Standon?
Most often it is assault: 4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 3 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 2.8.
Is crime going up in Saint-Léon-de-Standon?
It went up 21% between 2023 and 2025, from 34.9 to 42.3.
How much of Saint-Léon-de-Standon’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 55%: 72% for violent crime and 39% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Léon-de-Standon and everywhere else it polices.
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).