Photo: Vintotal · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan records less crime per resident than 63% of Canadian towns
On crime the police covering Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B for safety: #218 of 503 in Quebec. Behind the grade sit 11.3 violent incidents and 12.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 54 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5. Steady over the three years, the index read 53.5 in 2023 and 56.1 in 2025.
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 Montcalm MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan is 15th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 44% of crime in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 60% of violent crime and 29% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Near the Quebec middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan scores 54. Towns its size ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 93.4 on Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 38.7 against 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The B for Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, 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: #218 of 503 in Quebec and #691 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.
Which crimes make up Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan runs highest on sexual assault (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.9). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 67.3 | 0.9 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19.3 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 11 | 0.1 | 36% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 10.3 | 0.1 | 97% |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Breaking and entering | 125 | 1.7 | 21% |
| Possession of stolen property | 30.3 | 0.4 | 40% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 197.7 | 2.7 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 53 | 0.7 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 178.7 | 2.4 | 18% |
| Mischief | 116 | 1.6 | 20% |
| Weapons violations | 18.7 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Administration of justice violations | 200 | 2.7 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15 | 0.2 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 39 | 0.5 | 83% |
| Impaired driving | 112.3 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 114.3 | 1.6 | 13% |
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.
Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan comes 15th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Ferris Ontario | 5,835 | 17.7 | 27.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Verchères Quebec | 5,819 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 7 | Hudson Quebec | 5,533 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 8 | Orford Quebec | 5,698 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 9 | Waterloo Quebec | 5,714 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Val-David Quebec | 5,920 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| 13 | Cookshire-Eaton Quebec | 5,491 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| 14 | Spallumcheen British Columbia | 5,843 | 51.3 | 59.9 | B+ |
| 15 | Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan Quebec | 5,675 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| 16 | Chertsey Quebec | 5,678 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 17 | Saint-Jean-de-Matha Quebec | 5,415 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 18 | Lanoraie Quebec | 5,694 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | The Pas Manitoba | 5,634 | 572.1 | 753.3 | 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-Roch-de-l'Achigan in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 56.1; the lightest was 2024, at 52.3. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56.1 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 52.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 53.5 | 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-Roch-de-l'Achigan, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
74,700 residents, about 830 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan 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 910 a year and other violations 550 (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-Roch-de-l'Achigan
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan | 5,675 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Esprit | 2,313 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| L'Épiphanie | 9,254 | — | — | — |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé | 1,296 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Jacques | 4,830 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Mascouche | 56,897 | 45.7 | 79.3 | A− |
| Saint-Alexis | 1,462 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
The table leaves out 4 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan alone.
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
Questions about safety in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan
Is Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan safe?
Against a typical 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan’s Crime Severity Index stands at 54 for 2023–2025. Its police record 11.3 violent incidents and 12.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan?
Police record assault most, 5.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of Criminal Code traffic offences (3.5) and other Criminal Code offences (3.5).
Is crime going up in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 53.5 to 56.1.
How much of Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 60% of violent crime and 29% of everything else, 44% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan and everywhere else it polices.
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).