Photo: Dana2255 · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets has less crime per resident than 75% of Canadian towns
It grades A− for safety on crime the police covering Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets reported from 2023 to 2025. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 64.3 and 39.8. Typical years here bring 9.4 violent incidents plus 12.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Still, its 4 neighbours with figures all 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Bécancour MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets
More crime solved
Police cleared 50% of Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s crime, weighted by seriousness (71% of violent crime, 37% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s index of 46.5 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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-Pierre-les-Becquets’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.
The police area Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets is part of, 22,100 residents, recorded about 210 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 270 a year and other violations 200 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
From 2023 to 2025, Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s index dropped 6%
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 50.1; 2025 was the lightest, at 43.5. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.5 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 50.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 46.1 | 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-Pierre-les-Becquets, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s crime by kind
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14.3 | 0.7 | 65% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6 | 0.3 | 83% |
| Breaking and entering | 44.7 | 2 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 48 | 2.2 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6 | 0.3 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 60.7 | 2.8 | 39% |
| Mischief | 31.3 | 1.4 | 36% |
| Weapons violations | 6 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 85.7 | 3.9 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 24.7 | 1.1 | 46% |
| Impaired driving | 37.7 | 1.7 | 88% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 28.3 | 1.3 | 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.
Crime in the places around Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets | 1,172 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
| Batiscan | 1,006 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade | 2,036 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan | 1,137 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Champlain | 1,957 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets has the highest index of the places around it. Just 3.3 km away, Batiscan comes to 39.2, against 46.5.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets among them.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets
Is Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets safe?
Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets measures 46.5 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 9.4 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 4.2 and fraud at 3.5.
Is crime going up in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets?
It went down 6% between 2023 and 2025, from 46.1 to 43.5.
How much of Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 50% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 71% of violent and 37% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets 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).