Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Saint-Malachie runs lower than in 85% of Canadian towns
None of the 3 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Scored on crime the police covering Saint-Malachie reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A for safety. Split in two, the index gives 73 for violence and 26.8 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). The yearly rates were 8.5 violent incidents and 9.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 Bellechasse MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Malachie
Police clear more here
Police cleared 55% of Saint-Malachie’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-Malachie’s two halves part ways: 73 for violence (typical 86.4) and 26.8 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Malachie scores 39.7. Towns its size ↓
Heavier than in 2023
From 34.9 in 2023 to 42.3 in 2025: that is Saint-Malachie’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. 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.
Inside Saint-Malachie’s A 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-Malachie’s index rose 21% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (42.3); 2023 was the low point, at 34.9. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Malachie | 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-Malachie, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Saint-Malachie’s crime by kind
Assault and fraud 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 | 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.
39,600 residents, about 340 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Malachie 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 350 property crimes, plus 200 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-Malachie
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Malachie | 1,755 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Frampton | 1,374 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Léon-de-Standon | 1,033 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Sainte-Marguerite | 1,297 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Sainte-Claire | 3,724 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Damien-de-Buckland | 1,840 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saints-Anges | 1,364 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Saint-Malachie. Frampton, 6.3 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 37.7 to 39.7. Same police, same number: 3 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Malachie shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Saint-Malachie
Is Saint-Malachie safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Saint-Malachie comes to 39.7. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 8.5 violent incidents and 9 property crimes. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Malachie?
Police record assault most, 4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (3) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.8).
Is crime going up in Saint-Malachie?
It went up 21% between 2023 and 2025, from 34.9 to 42.3.
How much of Saint-Malachie’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 55% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 72% of violent crime and 39% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Malachie 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).