Photo: Williamborg · Public domainCrime in Saint-Ours sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Saint-Ours grades B for safety overall: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. By 2025 the index had dropped to 56.1, down from 60.6 in 2023. Year on year, 14.2 violent incidents and 16.9 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. All 4 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident.
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. Shared with the rest of the Pierre-De Saurel MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Ours
A high clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 47% of crime in Saint-Ours ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 65% of violent crime and 35% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Ours scores 58.7. 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.
What’s behind Saint-Ours’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.
Which crimes make up Saint-Ours’s figures
Mischief and theft under $5,000 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 | 32.3 | 0.6 | 54% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.2 | 82% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 18.7 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Breaking and entering | 111.3 | 2.1 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 13 | 0.2 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 76.7 | 1.4 | 18% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 21 | 0.4 | 18% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 272 | 5.1 | 35% |
| Mischief | 149.7 | 2.8 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 10 | 0.2 | 77% |
| Administration of justice violations | 261.3 | 4.9 | 98% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 85.3 | 1.6 | 63% |
| Impaired driving | 88.7 | 1.7 | 92% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 126.7 | 2.4 | 12% |
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.
Saint-Ours, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 60.6, and its lowest 2025, at 56.1. 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-Ours | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 59.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 60.6 | 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-Ours, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Saint-Ours is part of, 54,100 residents, recorded about 760 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 900 a year and other violations 620 (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-Ours
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Ours | 1,817 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu | 2,984 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Contrecoeur | 10,708 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel | 2,599 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Lanoraie | 5,694 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Lavaltrie | 15,996 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu | 1,880 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
Saint-Ours has the highest index of the places around it. Just 6.4 km away, Contrecoeur comes to 37.1, against 58.7. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Ours alone.
- What 100 means. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- The clearance rate. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
Questions about safety in Saint-Ours
Is Saint-Ours safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Saint-Ours scores 58.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 14.2 violent and 16.9 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-Ours?
Police record assault most, 7.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (5.7) and theft under $5,000 (5.1).
Is crime going up in Saint-Ours?
The reverse: 60.6 in 2023 came down to 56.1 by 2025, 7% lower.
How much of Saint-Ours’s crime do police solve?
About 47% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 65% of violent and 35% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Ours 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).