Photo: Hubert Figuière from Montréal, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Saint-Rémi sees more crime per resident than 85% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Saint-Rémi reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on C− for safety: #494 of 503 in Quebec. Each year brought 12.3 violent incidents and 11.8 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size). Split in two, the index gives 80.3 for violence and 131.9 for everything else (normally 85.7 and 62.8). All 3 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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Jardins de Napierville MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Rémi
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Saint-Rémi records 7.8 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Over the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Rémi, 116.5. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Saint-Rémi scores 80.3 for violence and 131.9 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Saint-Rémi comes 37th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. 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.
The C− for Saint-Rémi, and how it is built
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: #494 of 503 in Quebec and #2,227 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.
Crime in Saint-Rémi, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Rémi runs highest on Cannabis Act offences (5.8 per 1,000 against 0.03) and drug offences (7.8 per 1,000 against 0.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 25 | 0.8 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.3 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6.7 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Breaking and entering | 41 | 1.3 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 12.3 | 0.4 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 48.7 | 1.5 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18.7 | 0.6 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 73 | 2.3 | 30% |
| Mischief | 59.3 | 1.8 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 0.2 | 80% |
| Administration of justice violations | 55.7 | 1.7 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 206 | 6.4 | 8% |
| Drug violations | 253 | 7.8 | 14% |
| Impaired driving | 67.7 | 2.1 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 40.7 | 1.3 | 15% |
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.
By its index, Saint-Rémi stands 37th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beckwith Ontario | 10,073 | 20.5 | 25.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier Quebec | 9,830 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 4 | Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval Quebec | 9,084 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | La Pêche Quebec | 9,379 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Otterburn Park Quebec | 9,460 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 34 | Kitimat British Columbia | 10,019 | 100.8 | 107.1 | C− |
| 35 | Stony Mountain Manitoba | 9,180 | 100.9 | 127 | C− |
| 36 | Castlegar British Columbia | 9,465 | 107.5 | 94.1 | C− |
| 37 | Saint-Rémi Quebec | 9,557 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| 38 | Oromocto New Brunswick | 9,451 | 138.7 | 183.5 | D |
| 39 | Amherst Nova Scotia | 10,072 | 149.6 | 131.2 | D |
| 40 | Plympton-Wyoming Ontario | 9,548 | 333.9 | 378.3 | 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-Rémi in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
From 2023 to 2025, Saint-Rémi’s index dropped 15%
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (162.2) and 2025 the trough (86.1). In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Rémi | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86.1 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 162.2 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 101.1 | 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-Rémi, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
32,600 residents, about 400 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Rémi 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.
Add about 380 property crimes and 1,800 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Rémi
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Rémi | 9,557 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Michel | 3,672 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Isidore | 2,889 | — | — | — |
| Saint-Urbain-Premier | 1,380 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Saint-Édouard | 1,438 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Mathieu | 2,642 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Mercier | 16,036 | 35.9 | 60.1 | A |
The places around Saint-Rémi all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Saint-Urbain-Premier (9.1 km away), scores 75.4 against 116.5. 2 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
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Rémi among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. 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.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Rémi
Is Saint-Rémi safe?
Saint-Rémi scores 116.5 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5; per 1,000 residents a year that is 12.3 violent incidents and 11.8 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Rémi?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 8.7 per 1,000 residents a year, then drug offences (7.8) and assault (6.2).
Is crime going up in Saint-Rémi?
It went down 15% between 2023 and 2025, from 101.1 to 86.1.
How much of Saint-Rémi’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 38% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 69% of violent and 30% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Rémi 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).