Photo: YanikB · CC BY-SA 4.0Sainte-Béatrix is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Its two neighbours with figures both record more crime per resident. Weighing it all, Sainte-Béatrix earns B for safety, with close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported over 2023 to 2025. The index fell from 61.4 in 2023 to 53.7 in 2025. Out of every 1,000 residents, 10.8 violent incidents and 14.7 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 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 behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Matawinie MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Béatrix
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 43% for Sainte-Béatrix (59% violent, 32% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Sainte-Béatrix scores 87.6 for violence and 46 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
About the Quebec norm
Sainte-Béatrix’s index of 57.5 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-Béatrix’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.
Crime in Sainte-Béatrix, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Sainte-Béatrix runs highest on motor vehicle theft (3 per 1,000 against 2.4). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 44.3 | 0.8 | 49% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 15.3 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.09 | 75% |
| Robbery | 6.3 | 0.1 | 75% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.09 | 80% |
| Other violent violations | 16 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Breaking and entering | 131.3 | 2.3 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 46 | 0.8 | 65% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 174 | 3 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 41.3 | 0.7 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 144.7 | 2.5 | 23% |
| Mischief | 96.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 19.3 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 92 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16.7 | 0.3 | 60% |
| Drug violations | 48 | 0.8 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 123 | 2.1 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 75 | 1.3 | 16% |
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.
Sainte-Béatrix, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 61.4, and its lowest 2025, at 53.7. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Béatrix | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 57.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 61.4 | 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-Béatrix, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Sainte-Béatrix is part of, 58,800 residents, recorded about 620 violent incidents a year (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 840 property crimes, plus 420 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 Sainte-Béatrix
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Béatrix | 2,388 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez | 3,639 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare | 1,941 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Jean-de-Matha | 5,415 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Sainte-Mélanie | 3,417 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare | 4,615 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie | 1,856 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
The places around Sainte-Béatrix all score higher on the index. The table leaves out 4 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Sainte-Béatrix shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. 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 Sainte-Béatrix
Is Sainte-Béatrix safe?
Police-reported crime in Sainte-Béatrix scores 57.5 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 10.8 violent incidents and 14.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Béatrix?
Police record assault most, 5.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of Criminal Code traffic offences (4) and motor vehicle theft (3).
Is crime going up in Sainte-Béatrix?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 13%, to 53.7 from 61.4.
How much of Sainte-Béatrix’s crime do police solve?
About 43% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 59% of violent and 32% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Sainte-Béatrix 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).