Photo: YanikB · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime in Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
By 2025 the index had dropped to 53.7, down from 61.4 in 2023. Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare’s overall Safety Grade is B: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, in a usual year, 10.8 violent incidents and 14.7 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Matawinie MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 43% of Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare’s crime, weighted by seriousness (59% of violent crime, 32% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare’s two halves part ways: 87.6 for violence (typical 86.4) and 46 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare scores 57.5. 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-Marcelline-de-Kildare’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-Marcelline-de-Kildare, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (61.4); the low point came in 2025, at 53.7. 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-Marcelline-de-Kildare | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 57.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 61.4 | 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-Marcelline-de-Kildare, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare runs highest on motor vehicle theft (3 per 1,000 against 2.4). Assault and fraud sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 44.3 | 0.8 | 49% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 15.3 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.09 | 75% |
| Robbery | 6.3 | 0.1 | 75% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.09 | 80% |
| Other violent violations | 16 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Breaking and entering | 131.3 | 2.3 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 46 | 0.8 | 65% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 174 | 3 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 41.3 | 0.7 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 144.7 | 2.5 | 23% |
| Mischief | 96.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 19.3 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 92 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16.7 | 0.3 | 60% |
| Drug violations | 48 | 0.8 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 123 | 2.1 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 75 | 1.3 | 16% |
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 620 violent incidents a year across the police area of 58,800 residents that includes Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare, 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 840 a year and other violations 420 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare | 1,941 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare | 4,615 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Sainte-Mélanie | 3,417 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Sainte-Béatrix | 2,388 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes | 3,328 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez | 3,639 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Rawdon | 13,099 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare. 3 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare among them.
- 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. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare
Is Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare’s Crime Severity Index stands at 57.5 for 2023–2025. Its police record 10.8 violent incidents and 14.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare?
Most often it is assault: 5.4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come Criminal Code traffic offences at 4 and motor vehicle theft at 3.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare?
No: the index fell 13%, from 61.4 in 2023 to 53.7 in 2025.
How much of Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 43% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 59% of violent crime and 32% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare 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).