Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Sainte-Barbe than in 86% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 105.6 to 95. That puts it at D for safety, judged on crime the police covering Sainte-Barbe reported from 2023 to 2025. Its police logs show 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2. Split in two, the index gives 141 for violence and 113 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
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 Haut-Saint-Laurent MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Barbe
Higher than most of Quebec
Sainte-Barbe’s index of 120.3 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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 Sainte-Barbe’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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
24,100 residents, about 450 violent incidents a year: the police area Sainte-Barbe 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.
Add about 310 property crimes and 930 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Sainte-Barbe, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (160.3) and 2025 the trough (95). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Barbe | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 160.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 105.6 | 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 Sainte-Barbe, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Sainte-Barbe’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Sainte-Barbe runs highest on assault (9.3 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 25 | 1.1 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.2 | 86% |
| Other violent violations | 11 | 0.5 | 66% |
| Breaking and entering | 49 | 2.1 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.3 | 0.4 | 35% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 37.7 | 1.6 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10.3 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 44 | 1.9 | 36% |
| Mischief | 57.7 | 2.4 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 14.3 | 0.6 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 70.7 | 3 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 86.7 | 3.7 | 20% |
| Drug violations | 33.3 | 1.4 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 48.3 | 2.1 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 29 | 1.2 | 28% |
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.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Barbe
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Barbe | 1,993 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Saint-Zotique | 10,445 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka | 2,162 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Godmanchester | 1,590 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Les Coteaux | 6,294 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Huntingdon | 3,001 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Rivière-Beaudette | 2,806 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
Sainte-Barbe has the highest index of the places around it. Just 7.6 km away, Saint-Zotique comes to 39.2, against 120.3. Its police also cover 2 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- 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. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Sainte-Barbe shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Barbe
Is Sainte-Barbe safe?
Its police recorded 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Sainte-Barbe a Crime Severity Index of 120.3. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Barbe?
Most often it is assault: 9.3 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 7.6 and fraud at 4.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Barbe?
The reverse: 105.6 in 2023 came down to 95 by 2025, 10% lower.
How much of Sainte-Barbe’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 38% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 71% of violent crime and 20% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Sainte-Barbe 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).