Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka records more crime than 63% of Canadian towns
It grades C+ for safety on crime the police covering Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka reported from 2023 to 2025. Still, by 2025 the index had dropped to 72.8, down from 77.1 in 2023. Police counts work out at 23.9 violent incidents and 16.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2. On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 75.4, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Beauharnois-Salaberry MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka’s police clear 57%, 72% of violent crime and 42% of the rest. Questions ↓
Assault: high for a town its size
Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka records 13.4 incidents of assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
The violent half stands out
Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka’s index splits into violent crime, 130.4 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 54.1 against 62.8. By type ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka scores 75.4. 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-Stanislas-de-Kostka’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.
What police record in Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka, by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka runs highest on assault (13.4 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 51 | 0.9 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 40.7 | 0.7 | 89% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 18.3 | 0.3 | 66% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 12.7 | 0.2 | 97% |
| Other violent violations | 24 | 0.4 | 78% |
| Breaking and entering | 146 | 2.5 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 14 | 0.2 | 84% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 74 | 1.3 | 18% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 27 | 0.5 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 282 | 4.8 | 45% |
| Mischief | 157 | 2.7 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 26.3 | 0.4 | 80% |
| Administration of justice violations | 216.7 | 3.7 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 37.7 | 0.6 | 74% |
| Drug violations | 109 | 1.9 | 93% |
| Impaired driving | 109 | 1.8 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 165.3 | 2.8 | 14% |
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-Stanislas-de-Kostka, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (77.1); 2025 was the lightest, at 72.8. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.8 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 76.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 77.1 | 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-Stanislas-de-Kostka, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka is part of, 60,100 residents, recorded about 1,410 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 980 a year and other violations 730 (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-Stanislas-de-Kostka
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka | 2,162 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague | 2,536 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Salaberry-de-Valleyfield | 47,002 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Sainte-Barbe | 1,993 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Les Coteaux | 6,294 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Godmanchester | 1,590 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Saint-Zotique | 10,445 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
Of 4 places nearby with their own figures, 2 come in under Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka. Les Coteaux, 10.4 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 39.2 to 75.4. 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
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka among them.
- Reading the number. 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-Stanislas-de-Kostka
Is Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka safe?
With 23.9 violent incidents and 16.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka comes to 75.4 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka?
Top of the list is assault (13.4 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 5.1, and other Criminal Code offences, at 5.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka?
It went down 6% between 2023 and 2025, from 77.1 to 72.8.
How much of Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 57% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 72% of violent and 42% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka 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).