Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Saint-Narcisse runs lower than in 86% of Canadian towns
The index rose from 34.4 in 2023 to 39.2 in 2025. A Safety Grade of A follows from crime the police covering Saint-Narcisse reported over the years 2023 to 2025. Of the two halves, violence comes to 52 and other offences to 34.5, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. The yearly rates were 9.0 violent incidents and 11.2 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. Measured across the Chenaux MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Narcisse
Under the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Narcisse scores 39.2. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 48% for Saint-Narcisse (72% violent, 34% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: A for Saint-Narcisse
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-Narcisse, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 44.1 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 34.4 in 2023. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Narcisse | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 44.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 34.4 | 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-Narcisse, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Saint-Narcisse, type by type
Fraud and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6.3 | 0.5 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 33 | 2.4 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.3 | 1.4 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25.3 | 1.8 | 24% |
| Mischief | 23.7 | 1.7 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 23.7 | 1.7 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 7.3 | 0.5 | 64% |
| Impaired driving | 18 | 1.3 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 14.7 | 1.1 | 18% |
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.
13,900 residents, about 120 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Narcisse 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.
Property crime adds about 150 a year and other violations 78 (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-Narcisse
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Narcisse | 1,848 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Stanislas | 1,040 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan | 1,137 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Maurice | 3,804 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Hérouxville | 1,570 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Champlain | 1,957 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel | 6,613 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
5 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
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Narcisse among them.
Questions about safety in Saint-Narcisse
Is Saint-Narcisse safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Saint-Narcisse scores 39.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 9 violent and 11.2 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Narcisse?
The three biggest groups are assault at 3.5, fraud at 3.2 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 2.9, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Narcisse?
Yes: the index rose 14%, from 34.4 in 2023 to 39.2 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Narcisse’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 48% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 72% of violent and 34% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Narcisse 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).