Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton runs lower than in 76% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 49.4 to 42.5. On top of that, a Safety Grade of A− follows from crime the police covering Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton reported over the years 2023 to 2025. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 73.7 and 34.4. Out of every 1,000 residents, 9.4 violent incidents and 11.2 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts for the Haute-Yamaska MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 48% of Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton’s crime, weighted by seriousness (65% of violent crime, 34% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton’s two halves part ways: 73.7 for violence (typical 86.4) and 34.4 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 45.3 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton. 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-Cécile-de-Milton’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.
Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 49.4, and its lowest 2025, at 42.5. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42.5 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 44.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 49.4 | 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-Cécile-de-Milton, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton’s crime by kind
Fraud and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 22.3 | 0.9 | 51% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 42.7 | 1.7 | 26% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5 | 0.2 | 80% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 28.7 | 1.1 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 13.7 | 0.5 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 55.7 | 2.2 | 25% |
| Mischief | 42 | 1.6 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 1.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 61.7 | 2.4 | 97% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 0.3 | 64% |
| Drug violations | 23.7 | 0.9 | 72% |
| Impaired driving | 28.3 | 1.1 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 22.7 | 0.9 | 7% |
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.
About 240 violent incidents a year across the police area of 26,100 residents that includes Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, 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 290 property crimes, plus 160 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-Cécile-de-Milton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton | 2,267 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| Roxton Pond | 4,884 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| Granby | 72,180 | 62.6 | 92.5 | B− |
| Saint-Valérien-de-Milton | 1,794 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Pie | 6,085 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford | 2,891 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
| Saint-Dominique | 3,062 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton. One nearby place has no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton alone.
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton
Is Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton safe?
Police-reported crime in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton scores 45.3 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 9.4 violent incidents and 11.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton?
Police record assault most, 4.6 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (3.6) and other Criminal Code offences (2.9).
Is crime going up in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 14%, to 42.5 from 49.4.
How much of Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 48% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 65% of violent crime and 34% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton 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).