Photo: Gilles Douaire · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Saint-Liguori records less crime than 63% of Canadian towns
None of the 4 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Saint-Liguori’s Safety Grade is B, on crime the police covering Saint-Liguori reported from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, in a usual year, 11.3 violent incidents and 12.4 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 54 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Montcalm MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Liguori
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 44% of Saint-Liguori’s crime, weighted by seriousness (60% of violent crime, 29% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 54 in Saint-Liguori. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Saint-Liguori’s two halves part ways: 93.4 for violence (typical 86.4) and 38.7 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.
What’s behind Saint-Liguori’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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Saint-Liguori’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 | 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.
Year by year in Saint-Liguori: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 56.1; the lightest was 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-Liguori | 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-Liguori, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
74,700 residents, about 830 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Liguori 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.
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-Liguori
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Liguori | 2,268 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Jacques | 4,830 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Crabtree | 4,237 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Alexis | 1,462 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée | 16,904 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare | 4,615 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Joliette | 22,408 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
The places around Saint-Liguori all score higher on the index. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Liguori alone.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Liguori
Is Saint-Liguori safe?
Saint-Liguori measures 54 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 11.3 violent incidents and 12.4 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Liguori?
Most often it is assault: 5.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.5 and other Criminal Code offences at 3.5.
Is crime going up in Saint-Liguori?
The index stayed close to where it was, 53.5 in 2023 and 56.1 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Liguori’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 44% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 60% of violent crime and 29% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Liguori 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).