Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Saint-Zotique runs lower than in 86% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 61.7 and its non-violent half to 30.5, where the norm is 89.4 and 56. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Saint-Zotique reported put it at A for safety: #53 of 503 in Quebec. Per 1,000 residents a year, 8.4 violent incidents and 10.4 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Neither of the two towns next door with figures records 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Vaudreuil-Soulanges MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Zotique
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 49% of Saint-Zotique’s crime, weighted by seriousness (69% of violent crime, 34% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Under the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 39.2 in Saint-Zotique. Towns its size ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Saint-Zotique stands 10th, the lowest first. 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-Zotique’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: #53 of 503 in Quebec and #279 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Saint-Zotique’s crime by kind
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 2.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 60.3 | 0.4 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 47.3 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 6 | 0.04 | 67% |
| Robbery | 23 | 0.1 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 20 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 37 | 0.2 | 68% |
| Breaking and entering | 175 | 1 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 74 | 0.4 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 237.3 | 1.4 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 52.7 | 0.3 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 412.7 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Mischief | 269.7 | 1.6 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 21 | 0.1 | 99% |
| Administration of justice violations | 262.7 | 1.6 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 58.7 | 0.3 | 72% |
| Drug violations | 78 | 0.5 | 88% |
| Impaired driving | 271.7 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 294 | 1.7 | 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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Saint-Zotique is 10th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beckwith Ontario | 10,073 | 20.5 | 25.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury Quebec | 10,147 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Shelburne Ontario | 10,767 | 35.2 | 52.8 | A |
| 8 | Alexandria Ontario | 10,772 | 36.9 | 47.2 | A |
| 9 | Contrecoeur Quebec | 10,708 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 10 | Saint-Zotique Quebec | 10,445 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 11 | Blind Bay British Columbia | 9,984 | 40.8 | 37.4 | A− |
| 12 | Mitchell Ontario | 10,080 | 44.1 | 52.1 | A− |
| 13 | Wendover Ontario | 10,896 | 46.8 | 72.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Bois-des-Filion Quebec | 10,666 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Saint-Félicien Quebec | 10,143 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Wheatland County Alberta | 10,150 | 298.8 | 486.4 | 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-Zotique in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 1,430 violent incidents a year in the 170,600-resident police area around Saint-Zotique, 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 1,760 a year and other violations 1,130 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
In Saint-Zotique, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
At 39.9, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 37.9. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 69.5 and 2025 gave 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Zotique | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.9 | 60 |
| 2024 | 39.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 39.8 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-Zotique, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Saint-Zotique
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Zotique | 10,445 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Les Coteaux | 6,294 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Rivière-Beaudette | 2,806 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Sainte-Barbe | 1,993 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Saint-Polycarpe | 2,549 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Coteau-du-Lac | 7,839 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Salaberry-de-Valleyfield | 47,002 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Saint-Zotique. Sharing its police with 4 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Zotique among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Zotique
Is Saint-Zotique safe?
Against a typical 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, Saint-Zotique’s Crime Severity Index stands at 39.2 for 2023–2025. Its police record 8.4 violent incidents and 10.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Zotique?
Most often it is assault: 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come Criminal Code traffic offences at 4 and fraud at 3.
Is crime going up in Saint-Zotique?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 39.8 to 37.9.
How much of Saint-Zotique’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 69% of violent crime and 34% of everything else, 49% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Zotique 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).