Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime in Sainte-Élisabeth sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Of the 6 towns on its borders with figures, one records less crime per resident. Taking everything together, Sainte-Élisabeth scores B: close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. On top of that, for every 1,000 residents, 11.9 violent incidents and 14.8 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 58 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for 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: one figure for all of the D'Autray MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Élisabeth
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Sainte-Élisabeth’s police clear 53%, 74% of violent crime and 36% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Sainte-Élisabeth’s index splits into violent crime, 90.3 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 45.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Sainte-Élisabeth scores 58. 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.
The grade: B for Sainte-Élisabeth
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.
What police record in Sainte-Élisabeth, by type
Assault and fraud 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 | 41 | 0.9 | 50% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 13 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.3 | 0.1 | 94% |
| Other violent violations | 12 | 0.3 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 111 | 2.4 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 21.7 | 0.5 | 72% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 114.3 | 2.4 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 26.7 | 0.6 | 20% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 115.3 | 2.5 | 34% |
| Mischief | 89 | 1.9 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 11 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Administration of justice violations | 130.7 | 2.8 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14.3 | 0.3 | 70% |
| Drug violations | 44.7 | 1 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 129.7 | 2.8 | 89% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 67.3 | 1.4 | 21% |
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.
Around 560 violent incidents a year in the 47,600-resident police area around Sainte-Élisabeth, 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 690 a year and other violations 440 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
From 2023 to 2025, Sainte-Élisabeth’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 65.8 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 53.9 in 2023. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Élisabeth | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 65.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 53.9 | 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-Élisabeth, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Élisabeth
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Élisabeth | 1,473 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies | 9,622 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois | 7,670 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes | 3,328 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée | 16,904 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Sainte-Mélanie | 3,417 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Thomas | 3,477 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
Of 6 places nearby with their own figures, 1 come in under Sainte-Élisabeth. The nearest of them, Saint-Félix-de-Valois (7.9 km away), scores 57.5 against 58.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Sainte-Élisabeth shares it with its neighbours.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Élisabeth
Is Sainte-Élisabeth safe?
The short answer is an index of 58 for Sainte-Élisabeth (2023–2025), built from 11.9 violent incidents and 14.8 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. 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-Élisabeth?
Police record assault most, 5.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of Criminal Code traffic offences (4.8) and fraud (4.1).
Is crime going up in Sainte-Élisabeth?
The index stayed close to where it was, 53.9 in 2023 and 54.4 in 2025.
How much of Sainte-Élisabeth’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 74% of violent crime and 36% of everything else, 53% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Sainte-Élisabeth 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).