Photo: Nicogag · CC BY-SA 3.0Sainte-Marguerite has less crime per resident than 88% of Canadian towns
In 2023 the index stood at 34; it fell to 31.3 in 2025. It grades A for safety on crime the police covering Sainte-Marguerite reported from 2023 to 2025. Its violent half comes to 68.7 and its non-violent half to 25.6, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Out of every 1,000 residents, 8.2 violent incidents and 8.8 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 Nouvelle-Beauce MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Marguerite
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 68.7 on Sainte-Marguerite’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 25.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Sainte-Marguerite scores 37.7. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 51% of crime in Sainte-Marguerite 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.
What’s behind Sainte-Marguerite’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.
The police area Sainte-Marguerite 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-Marguerite’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-Marguerite, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 47.7, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 31.3. 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-Marguerite | 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-Marguerite, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Marguerite
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Marguerite | 1,297 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Sainte-Hénédine | 1,550 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Frampton | 1,374 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Sainte-Claire | 3,724 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Sainte-Marie | 13,873 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Malachie | 1,755 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Scott | 2,938 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Sainte-Marguerite. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 4 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Sainte-Marguerite alone.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Marguerite
Is Sainte-Marguerite safe?
The short answer is an index of 37.7 for Sainte-Marguerite (2023–2025), built from 8.2 violent incidents and 8.8 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Marguerite?
Assault is the most common, at 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (3.2) and Criminal Code traffic offences (3.2).
Is crime going up in Sainte-Marguerite?
It went down 8% between 2023 and 2025, from 34 to 31.3.
How much of Sainte-Marguerite’s crime do police solve?
About 51% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 68% of violent and 36% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Sainte-Marguerite 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).