Photo: SamuelFreli · CC BY-SA 3.0Sainte-Madeleine records less crime per resident than two in three Canadian towns
Each of the 4 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident. Police counts work out at 9.7 violent incidents and 14.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2. On the record of crime the police covering Sainte-Madeleine reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes B+ for safety. Of the two halves, violence comes to 70.8 and other offences to 41.7, beside norms of 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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Maskoutains MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Madeleine
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Sainte-Madeleine (67% violent, 38% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Sainte-Madeleine 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.
What sits behind Sainte-Madeleine’s B+
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-Madeleine, 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.
About 910 violent incidents a year across the police area of 94,500 residents that includes Sainte-Madeleine, 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.
Add about 1,310 property crimes and 730 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Sainte-Madeleine’s index fell 5% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 54.6, with 2025 the lightest at 45.9. 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-Madeleine | 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-Madeleine, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Madeleine
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Madeleine | 2,387 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Sainte-Marie-Madeleine | 2,940 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| La Présentation | 2,696 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Mont-Saint-Hilaire | 19,447 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu | 1,867 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| Saint-Jean-Baptiste | 3,332 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| Beloeil | 25,240 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Sainte-Madeleine. Closest is Mont-Saint-Hilaire, 8.1 km away, at 37.1 to 49.7 here. Same police, same number: 2 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
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Sainte-Madeleine alone.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Madeleine
Is Sainte-Madeleine safe?
With 9.7 violent incidents and 14 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Sainte-Madeleine comes to 49.7 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-Madeleine?
Most often it is assault: 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 4.3 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.1.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Madeleine?
No: the index fell 5%, from 48.6 in 2023 to 45.9 in 2025.
How much of Sainte-Madeleine’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 49% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 67% of violent and 38% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Sainte-Madeleine 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).