Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan sees less crime per resident than 86% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 52 and its non-violent half to 34.5, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. On crime the police covering Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A for safety. What’s more, recorded violent incidents ran at 9.0 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 11.2, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 34.4 to 39.2.
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. Measured across the Chenaux MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan
Lighter than Quebec’s middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan scores 39.2. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s police clear 48%, 72% of violent crime and 34% of the rest. Questions ↓
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-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’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-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 44.1; 2023 was the lightest, at 34.4. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 44.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 34.4 | 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-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan is part of, 13,900 residents, recorded about 120 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 150 property crimes, plus 78 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
What police record in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6.3 | 0.5 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 33 | 2.4 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.3 | 1.4 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25.3 | 1.8 | 24% |
| Mischief | 23.7 | 1.7 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 23.7 | 1.7 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 7.3 | 0.5 | 64% |
| Impaired driving | 18 | 1.3 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 14.7 | 1.1 | 18% |
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-Geneviève-de-Batiscan
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan | 1,137 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Stanislas | 1,040 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Narcisse | 1,848 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Batiscan | 1,006 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Champlain | 1,957 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade | 2,036 | 39.2 | 52 | A |
| Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets | 1,172 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
5 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan 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.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan
Is Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan safe?
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan measures 39.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 9 violent incidents and 11.2 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan?
The three biggest groups are assault at 3.5, fraud at 3.2 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 2.9, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan?
Yes: the index rose 14%, from 34.4 in 2023 to 39.2 in 2025.
How much of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 48% of crime (72% of violent crime, 34% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).