Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Martin records less crime per resident than 73% of Canadian towns
In a usual year, 10.9 violent incidents and 10.6 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.9 and 31.2. What’s more, across Quebec’s towns, the middle index is 56.1. Scored on crime the police covering Saint-Martin reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on B+ for safety: #135 of 503 in Quebec. Against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 81.3 and 34.7.
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 for the Beauce-Sartigan MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Martin
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 64% of crime in Saint-Martin ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 82% of violent crime and 48% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 81.3 on Saint-Martin’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 34.7 against 62.8. By type ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Saint-Martin stands 13th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Lighter than in 2023
Saint-Martin’s index went from 50.7 in 2023 to 42 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. 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-Martin’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.
Its place: #135 of 503 in Quebec and #471 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Which crimes make up Saint-Martin’s figures
Assault 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 | 28.3 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 14.3 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 7.3 | 0.1 | 92% |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 20.7 | 0.4 | 77% |
| Breaking and entering | 62.3 | 1.1 | 52% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.3 | 0.10 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 30.7 | 0.6 | 34% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.3 | 0.2 | 33% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 124.7 | 2.3 | 46% |
| Mischief | 97.3 | 1.8 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 17.3 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Administration of justice violations | 142 | 2.6 | 97% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15.7 | 0.3 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 83.7 | 1.5 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 107.7 | 2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 95.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
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 to 10,000 people.
In Saint-Martin, down 17% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
From 50.7 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 42 in 2025. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Martin | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 50.6 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 50.7 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-Martin, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Saint-Martin comes 13th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grey Manitoba | 2,655 | 27.2 | 39.3 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Saint-Bernard Quebec | 2,680 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 4 | Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse Quebec | 2,739 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| 5 | Eastman Quebec | 2,706 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 6 | Saint-Mathieu Quebec | 2,642 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 10 | East River, Part 1 Prince Edward Island | 2,657 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| 11 | Emerson-Franklin Manitoba | 2,686 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
| 12 | Bonaventure Quebec | 2,719 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| 13 | Saint-Martin Quebec | 2,687 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| 14 | La Présentation Quebec | 2,696 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| 15 | Souris Manitoba | 2,737 | 54.2 | 56.4 | B |
| 16 | Plessisville Quebec | 2,718 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | La Ronge Saskatchewan | 2,668 | 715.9 | 1,169 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Saint-Martin in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Saint-Martin is part of, 55,400 residents, recorded about 600 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 580 a year and other violations 500 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Martin
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Martin | 2,687 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-René | 1,035 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley | 1,610 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce | 2,136 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Benoît-Labre | 1,655 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Côme--Linière | 3,435 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Georges | 33,881 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
6 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
- What clearance means. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Martin shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Saint-Martin
Is Saint-Martin safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint-Martin at 47.7 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people sit at 68.5 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 10.9 and property crimes at 10.6 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Martin?
Assault is the most common, at 5 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (4.2) and Criminal Code traffic offences (4.1).
Is crime going up in Saint-Martin?
The reverse: 50.7 in 2023 came down to 42 by 2025, 17% lower.
How much of Saint-Martin’s crime do police solve?
About 64% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 82% of violent and 48% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Martin 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).