Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot than in 68% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 70.8 for violence and 41.7 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Scored on crime the police covering Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on B+ for safety. Out of every 1,000 residents, 9.7 violent incidents and 14.0 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, its 3 neighbours with figures all record more crime per resident.
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 Maskoutains MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot (67% violent, 38% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot scores 49.7. 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.
Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot: B+ for safety, and why
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-Hélène-de-Bagot, type by type
Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.00 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 52.7 | 0.6 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 21.3 | 0.2 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.06 | 51% |
| Robbery | 18 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 10.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 20.3 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Breaking and entering | 171.7 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.7 | 0.2 | 79% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 125.7 | 1.3 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 41.7 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 403 | 4.3 | 36% |
| Mischief | 165.7 | 1.8 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 15.7 | 0.2 | 83% |
| Administration of justice violations | 181 | 1.9 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 30.7 | 0.3 | 79% |
| Drug violations | 84.7 | 0.9 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 135 | 1.4 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 216.3 | 2.3 | 11% |
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.
94,500 residents, about 910 violent incidents a year: the police area Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot 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 1,310 a year and other violations 730 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Year by year in Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot: down 5%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 54.6 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 45.9 in 2025. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 54.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 48.6 | 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-Hélène-de-Bagot, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot | 1,887 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Eugène | 1,180 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Simon | 1,474 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Liboire | 3,123 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Upton | 2,149 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Saint-Hugues | 1,414 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Théodore-d'Acton | 1,650 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot. 3 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
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- 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. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot among them.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot
Is Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot safe?
Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot’s Crime Severity Index is 49.7 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 9.7 violent incidents and 14 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot?
The three biggest groups are assault at 4.5, theft under $5,000 at 4.3 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.1, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot?
No: the index fell 5%, from 48.6 in 2023 to 45.9 in 2025.
How much of Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 49% of crime (67% of violent crime, 38% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot 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).