Photo: Olivier Ménard · CC BY-SA 3.0Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines records less crime per resident than 72% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 61 and other offences for 43, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56. Each of the 4 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident. Even so, the grade is B+, built on crime the police covering Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines reported from 2023 to 2025: #144 of 503 in Quebec. Out of every 1,000 residents, 10.5 violent incidents and 17.2 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size.
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 for the Thérèse-de-Blainville service area.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines
More crime solved
Police cleared 51% of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines’s crime, weighted by seriousness (78% of violent crime, 36% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines is 16th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
About the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines scores 47.9. 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 sits behind Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines’s B+
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: #144 of 503 in Quebec and #482 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.
Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines’s crime by kind
Theft under $5,000 and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 12 | 0.1 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19 | 0.2 | 89% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.07 | 75% |
| Robbery | 19.7 | 0.2 | 62% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 19.7 | 0.2 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 143 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 16.3 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 131.7 | 1.6 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 26 | 0.3 | 24% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 522.3 | 6.5 | 39% |
| Mischief | 115.3 | 1.4 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 11.3 | 0.1 | 80% |
| Administration of justice violations | 147 | 1.8 | 98% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 22.7 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 53 | 0.7 | 68% |
| Impaired driving | 79.7 | 1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 189.3 | 2.4 | 22% |
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.
About 840 violent incidents a year across the police area of 81,000 residents that includes Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, 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 1,380 property crimes, plus 570 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines comes 16th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dorchester Ontario | 15,475 | 28.2 | 19.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Mercier Quebec | 16,036 | 35.9 | 60.1 | A |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Saint-Basile-le-Grand Quebec | 17,146 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 10 | Pincourt Quebec | 15,220 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Winkler Manitoba | 16,156 | 45.7 | 56.3 | A− |
| 14 | Bécancour Quebec | 14,943 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
| 15 | Ingersoll Ontario | 14,911 | 47.7 | 60.5 | B+ |
| 16 | Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines Quebec | 15,904 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| 17 | High River Alberta | 15,508 | 50.5 | 56.6 | B+ |
| 18 | Sainte-Adèle Quebec | 15,216 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| 19 | Limoges Ontario | 15,122 | 53.9 | 62.3 | B |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Gaspé Quebec | 15,479 | 57.9 | 106.1 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | North Battleford Saskatchewan | 14,882 | 528.4 | 591.9 | 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 Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
In Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 51.9; 2023 was the lightest, at 45.4. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 69.5 to 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46.4 | 60 |
| 2024 | 51.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 45.4 | 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 Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines | 15,904 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| Saint-Lin--Laurentides | 26,673 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Blainville | 61,739 | 34.9 | 41.4 | A |
| Lorraine | 9,721 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| Bois-des-Filion | 10,666 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| Sainte-Sophie | 19,467 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| Terrebonne | 126,872 | 41.6 | 72.5 | A− |
Nearby, 3 of 4 places with their own figures have a lower index than Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines. Closest is Blainville, 10.6 km away, at 34.9 to 47.9 here. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- A wider service area. The service that polices Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines reports once for its whole area, so the figures aren’t the town’s alone.
- The index’s scale. 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.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines
Is Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines safe?
Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines scores 47.9 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66; per 1,000 residents a year that is 10.5 violent incidents and 17.2 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 6.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (5.7) and fraud (5).
Is crime going up in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines?
Not much: the index went from 45.4 in 2023 to 46.4 in 2025.
How much of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 78% of violent crime and 36% of everything else, 51% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines 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).