Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0For recorded crime, Saint-Thomas sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 68.5 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5. Across all the graded crimes, Saint-Thomas lands on B− (#345 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. By contrast, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 72 to 63.4. Its police logs show 14.7 violent incidents and 19.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical town its size the numbers are 12.9 and 31.2.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Joliette MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Thomas
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Saint-Thomas (64% violent, 37% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Saint-Thomas is 23rd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Thomas scores 68.5. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on violence
Saint-Thomas scores 107.8 for violence and 53.3 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 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.
What’s behind Saint-Thomas’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.
Its place: #345 of 503 in Quebec and #1,340 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-Thomas, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Thomas runs highest on sexual assault (1.5 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 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 67 | 0.9 | 54% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 25.3 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5 | 0.07 | 74% |
| Robbery | 15.3 | 0.2 | 54% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 14 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 24 | 0.3 | 55% |
| Breaking and entering | 129.7 | 1.7 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 19 | 0.3 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 210.7 | 2.8 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 42.7 | 0.6 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 409.3 | 5.5 | 39% |
| Mischief | 188 | 2.5 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 20.3 | 0.3 | 94% |
| Administration of justice violations | 302 | 4 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 27.7 | 0.4 | 88% |
| Drug violations | 106 | 1.4 | 98% |
| Impaired driving | 134.7 | 1.8 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 209.7 | 2.8 | 10% |
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-Thomas, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 72, against a low of 63.4 in 2025. 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-Thomas | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 70 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 72 | 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-Thomas, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Saint-Thomas is 23rd of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier Quebec | 3,400 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Saint-Isidore Quebec | 3,550 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Saint-Pascal Quebec | 3,516 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| 10 | Saint-Gilles Quebec | 3,521 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 20 | Channel-Port aux Basques Newfoundland and Labrador | 3,379 | 66.8 | 62.8 | B− |
| 21 | Electoral Area D (Rural Grand Forks), Kootenay Boundary British Columbia | 3,570 | 67.5 | 73.9 | B− |
| 22 | Port Hawkesbury Nova Scotia | 3,442 | 68.4 | 80 | B− |
| 23 | Saint-Thomas Quebec | 3,477 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 24 | Sainte-Mélanie Quebec | 3,417 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 25 | Melancthon Ontario | 3,581 | 68.8 | 125.9 | B− |
| 26 | Lac du Bonnet Manitoba | 3,592 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Buckland No. 491 Saskatchewan | 3,550 | 332.1 | 425.8 | 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-Thomas in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 1,090 violent incidents a year in the 75,500-resident police area around Saint-Thomas, 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 1,430 a year and other violations 860 (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-Thomas
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Thomas | 3,477 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Joliette | 22,408 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Paul | 7,208 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies | 9,622 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée | 16,904 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Sainte-Élisabeth | 1,473 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Lanoraie | 5,694 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
Saint-Thomas has the highest index of the places around it. Just 10.5 km away, Sainte-Élisabeth comes to 58, against 68.5. 4 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Thomas 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.
Questions about safety in Saint-Thomas
Is Saint-Thomas safe?
Its police recorded 14.7 violent incidents and 19.2 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Saint-Thomas a Crime Severity Index of 68.5. Set that beside 68.5, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Thomas?
The three biggest groups are assault at 7.3, theft under $5,000 at 5.5 and fraud at 5.2, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Thomas?
It went down 12% between 2023 and 2025, from 72 to 63.4.
How much of Saint-Thomas’s crime do police solve?
About 49% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 64% of violent and 37% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Thomas 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).