Saint-Norbert sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
The yearly rates were 11.9 violent incidents and 14.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. All told, Saint-Norbert grades B for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 58 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for 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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the D'Autray MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Norbert
More crime solved
Police cleared 53% of Saint-Norbert’s crime, weighted by seriousness (74% of violent crime, 36% 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-Norbert’s two halves part ways: 90.3 for violence (typical 86.4) and 45.6 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Norbert, 58. Towns its size ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Saint-Norbert: B for safety, and why
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-Norbert’s crime by kind
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 41 | 0.9 | 50% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 13 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.3 | 0.1 | 94% |
| Other violent violations | 12 | 0.3 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 111 | 2.4 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 21.7 | 0.5 | 72% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 114.3 | 2.4 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 26.7 | 0.6 | 20% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 115.3 | 2.5 | 34% |
| Mischief | 89 | 1.9 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 11 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Administration of justice violations | 130.7 | 2.8 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14.3 | 0.3 | 70% |
| Drug violations | 44.7 | 1 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 129.7 | 2.8 | 89% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 67.3 | 1.4 | 21% |
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.
47,600 residents, about 560 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Norbert 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 690 a year and other violations 440 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Year by year in Saint-Norbert: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 65.8; 2023 was lightest, at 53.9. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Norbert | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 65.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 53.9 | 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-Norbert, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Norbert
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Norbert | 1,143 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Saint-Cuthbert | 1,865 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon | 2,916 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois | 7,670 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Gabriel | 3,091 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Sainte-Élisabeth | 1,473 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Saint-Barthélemy | 2,115 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 5 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Norbert alone.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Saint-Norbert
Is Saint-Norbert safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 58 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Saint-Norbert stands, with 11.9 violent and 14.8 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Norbert?
Top of the list is assault (5.5 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 4.8, and fraud, at 4.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Norbert?
Barely: 53.9 in 2023, 54.4 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Norbert’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 53% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 74% of violent and 36% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Norbert 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).