Photo: Miguel Tremblay · Public domainSaint-Tite is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Its letter overall is B (#257 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Add to that, in 2023 the index stood at 55.4; it fell to 48.7 in 2025. Recorded violent incidents ran at 13.0 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 15.9, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Both 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Mékinac MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Tite
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Saint-Tite stands 12th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Saint-Tite (74% violent, 34% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 56.3 in Saint-Tite. 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-Tite’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: #257 of 503 in Quebec and #765 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-Tite, type by type
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 | 9 | 0.7 | 81% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.7 | 0.6 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 41.3 | 3.2 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 32.3 | 2.5 | 3% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 0.6 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39.7 | 3 | 42% |
| Mischief | 31.3 | 2.4 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 41.3 | 3.2 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 12 | 0.9 | 81% |
| Impaired driving | 22 | 1.7 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 14.7 | 1.1 | 2% |
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-Tite, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 64.9, with 2025 the lightest at 48.7. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Tite | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48.7 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 64.9 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 55.4 | 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-Tite, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Saint-Tite comes 12th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powassan Ontario | 3,657 | 15 | 22.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Saint-Sulpice Quebec | 3,688 | 39.2 | 59 | A |
| 4 | Saint-Maurice Quebec | 3,804 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| 5 | Sainte-Claire Quebec | 3,724 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| … | |||||
| 7 | L'Islet Quebec | 3,874 | 43.7 | 73 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Ascot Corner Quebec | 3,725 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| 10 | Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson Quebec | 3,842 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| 11 | Piedmont Quebec | 3,667 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| 12 | Saint-Tite Quebec | 3,759 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| 13 | Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez Quebec | 3,639 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 14 | Electoral Area C, Nanaimo British Columbia | 3,733 | 58.9 | 58.4 | B− |
| 15 | Saint-André-Avellin Quebec | 3,862 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Cowichan Bay British Columbia | 3,713 | 131.7 | 149.7 | 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-Tite in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
13,200 residents, about 170 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Tite 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.
And about 210 property crimes, plus 110 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Tite
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Tite | 3,759 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Hérouxville | 1,570 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Sainte-Thècle | 2,422 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Saint-Stanislas | 1,040 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Narcisse | 1,848 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Saint-Tite. Saint-Stanislas, 18.5 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 39.2 to 56.3. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Tite among them.
- Reading the number. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Saint-Tite
Is Saint-Tite safe?
Saint-Tite’s Crime Severity Index is 56.3 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 13 violent incidents and 15.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. 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-Tite?
Assault is the most common, at 6.1 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (3.9) and fraud (3.8).
Is crime going up in Saint-Tite?
No: the index fell 12%, from 55.4 in 2023 to 48.7 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Tite’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 74% of violent crime and 34% of everything else, 49% 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-Tite 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).