Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Sainte-Hénédine runs lower than in 88% of Canadian towns
Behind the grade sit 8.2 violent incidents and 8.8 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+. Add to that, in 2023 the index stood at 34; it fell to 31.3 in 2025. Counting crime the police covering Sainte-Hénédine reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A for safety. Split in two, the index gives 68.7 for violence and 25.6 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
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 Nouvelle-Beauce MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Hénédine
Heavier on violence
Violent crime scores 68.7 on Sainte-Hénédine’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 25.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Below Quebec’s typical town
Sainte-Hénédine’s index of 37.7 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 51% of crime in Sainte-Hénédine ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 68% of violent crime and 36% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Sainte-Hénédine’s A for safety
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.
The police area Sainte-Hénédine is part of, 41,100 residents, recorded about 330 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.
Property crime adds about 350 a year and other violations 230 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Which crimes make up Sainte-Hénédine’s figures
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 17.7 | 0.4 | 77% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Robbery | 4.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 9.3 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Breaking and entering | 44 | 1.1 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 28 | 0.7 | 35% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 13.3 | 0.3 | 23% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 70 | 1.7 | 42% |
| Mischief | 59 | 1.5 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 0.2 | 96% |
| Administration of justice violations | 53 | 1.3 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11.7 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Drug violations | 20.7 | 0.5 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 76.3 | 1.9 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 40 | 1 | 15% |
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.
Sainte-Hénédine, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 47.7, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 31.3. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Hénédine | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 47.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 34 | 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-Hénédine, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Hénédine
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Hénédine | 1,550 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Sainte-Marguerite | 1,297 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Anselme | 4,534 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Sainte-Claire | 3,724 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Isidore | 3,550 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Scott | 2,938 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Sainte-Marie | 13,873 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Sainte-Hénédine. Same police, same number: 4 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “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 reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Sainte-Hénédine among them.
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. 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.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Hénédine
Is Sainte-Hénédine safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Sainte-Hénédine scores 37.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 8.2 violent and 8.8 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. 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-Hénédine?
Top of the list is assault (3.9 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 3.2, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.2, follow.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Hénédine?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 8%, to 31.3 from 34.
How much of Sainte-Hénédine’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 51%: 68% for violent crime and 36% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Sainte-Hénédine and everywhere else it polices.
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).