Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Both towns on its borders with figures record more crime per resident. Taking everything together, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier scores B: close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Behind the grade sit 11.9 violent incidents and 14.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, its Crime Severity Index averaged 58 over 2023–2025, against 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the D'Autray MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier’s police clear 53%, 74% of violent crime and 36% of the rest. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier’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 ↓
About the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, 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.
What’s behind Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier’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.
What police record in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, by type
Fraud and theft under $5,000 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.
47,600 residents, about 560 violent incidents a year: the police area Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier 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.
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.
In Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 65.8; 2023 was the lightest, at 53.9. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier | 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-Geneviève-de-Berthier, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier | 2,298 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Berthierville | 4,591 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola | 2,170 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel | 1,602 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Saint-Cuthbert | 1,865 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Sorel-Tracy | 36,537 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| Sainte-Élisabeth | 1,473 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier has the lowest index of the places around it. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 4 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Solved cases. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier
Is Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier safe?
With 11.9 violent incidents and 14.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier comes to 58 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier?
Top of the list is assault (5.5 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 4.8, and fraud, at 4.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier?
Not much: the index went from 53.9 in 2023 to 54.4 in 2025.
How much of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier’s crime do police solve?
About 53% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 74% of violent and 36% 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-Geneviève-de-Berthier 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).