Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Behind the grade sit 17.1 violent incidents and 17.6 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+. All told, Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc grades C+ for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Its Crime Severity Index averaged 68.9 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Steady over the three years, the index read 69.9 in 2023 and 66.5 in 2025.
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 Maria-Chapdelaine MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 59% for Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc (71% violent, 49% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 68.9 in Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc scores 107.3 for violence and 54.1 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
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-Jeanne-d'Arc’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-Jeanne-d'Arc, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 70.3; 2025 was the lightest, at 66.5. 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-Jeanne-d'Arc | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66.5 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 70.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 69.9 | 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-Jeanne-d'Arc, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc runs highest on assault (7.8 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 20.7 | 0.8 | 76% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.3 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 21.3 | 0.9 | 62% |
| Breaking and entering | 76.7 | 3.2 | 42% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 59.7 | 2.5 | 33% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8 | 0.3 | 25% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 97 | 4 | 45% |
| Mischief | 59.3 | 2.4 | 34% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 0.3 | 81% |
| Administration of justice violations | 69 | 2.8 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9.3 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 25.3 | 1 | 82% |
| Impaired driving | 39.3 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 45 | 1.8 | 19% |
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.
About 420 violent incidents a year across the police area of 24,300 residents that includes Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc, 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 430 property crimes, plus 220 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc | 1,111 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| Dolbeau-Mistassini (10 km) | 13,581 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| Albanel (24 km) | 2,191 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| Normandin (32 km) | 3,065 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| Mashteuiatsh (32 km) | 2,074 | 191.7 | 436.6 | D |
| Saint-Félicien (33 km) | 10,143 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc has the lowest index of the places around it. Sharing its police with 3 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc with figures are 10–33 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc alone.
- Reading the number. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc
Is Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc safe?
Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc scores 68.9 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 17.1 violent incidents and 17.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc?
Assault is the most common, at 7.8 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (4.2) and theft under $5,000 (4).
Is crime going up in Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc?
Not much: the index went from 69.9 in 2023 to 66.5 in 2025.
How much of Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc’s crime do police solve?
59%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 71% and non-violent crime at 49%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc 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).