Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime in Saint-Wenceslas sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Of the 3 towns on its borders with figures, one records less crime per resident. The index rose from 53.3 in 2023 to 60.7 in 2025. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Saint-Wenceslas at B: close to the middle of Canadian towns. Violence and property crime split as 12.4 violent incidents and 13.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Nicolet-Yamaska MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Wenceslas
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Wenceslas’s police clear 52%, 67% of violent crime and 40% of the rest. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Saint-Wenceslas’s index splits into violent crime, 87.6 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 44.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
About the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Wenceslas, 56.5. 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 B for Saint-Wenceslas, 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Saint-Wenceslas, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 60.7, and 2023 lowest at 53.3. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Wenceslas | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 55.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 53.3 | 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-Wenceslas, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Saint-Wenceslas, by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 21.7 | 0.9 | 60% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.3 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.3 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Breaking and entering | 47 | 2 | 30% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 35 | 1.5 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.3 | 0.3 | 18% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 86 | 3.6 | 33% |
| Mischief | 43.7 | 1.8 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 61.3 | 2.6 | 81% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7 | 0.3 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 34.3 | 1.4 | 50% |
| Impaired driving | 48.7 | 2 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 27.3 | 1.1 | 23% |
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.
24,000 residents, about 300 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Wenceslas 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 330 a year and other violations 200 (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-Wenceslas
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Wenceslas | 1,202 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Sainte-Eulalie | 1,056 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Léonard-d'Aston | 2,662 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Daveluyville | 2,477 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil | 1,950 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Bécancour | 14,943 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
Of 3 places nearby with their own figures, 2 come in under Saint-Wenceslas. Closest is Daveluyville, 14 km away, at 55 to 56.5 here. 2 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Wenceslas alone.
- The index’s scale. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Saint-Wenceslas
Is Saint-Wenceslas safe?
Saint-Wenceslas measures 56.5 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 12.4 violent incidents and 13.8 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Wenceslas?
The three biggest groups are assault at 5.5, fraud at 4.1 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Wenceslas?
It went up 14% between 2023 and 2025, from 53.3 to 60.7.
How much of Saint-Wenceslas’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 67% of violent crime and 40% of everything else, 52% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Wenceslas 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).