Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Sainte-Marie-Salomé sees less crime per resident than 63% of Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 54 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, its letter for safety is B, worked out from crime the police covering Sainte-Marie-Salomé reported over 2023 to 2025. Year on year, 11.3 violent incidents and 12.4 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. One of the 3 towns next door with figures records less 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Montcalm MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Marie-Salomé
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 44% for Sainte-Marie-Salomé (60% violent, 29% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Sainte-Marie-Salomé scores 54. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on violence
Sainte-Marie-Salomé scores 93.4 for violence and 38.7 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 sits behind Sainte-Marie-Salomé’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.
Sainte-Marie-Salomé’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (56.1); the lightest was 2024 (52.3). 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-Marie-Salomé | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 52.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 53.5 | 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-Marie-Salomé, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
74,700 residents, about 830 violent incidents a year: the police area Sainte-Marie-Salomé belongs to, 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 910 a year and other violations 550 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in Sainte-Marie-Salomé, type by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 67.3 | 0.9 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19.3 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 11 | 0.1 | 36% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 10.3 | 0.1 | 97% |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Breaking and entering | 125 | 1.7 | 21% |
| Possession of stolen property | 30.3 | 0.4 | 40% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 197.7 | 2.7 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 53 | 0.7 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 178.7 | 2.4 | 18% |
| Mischief | 116 | 1.6 | 20% |
| Weapons violations | 18.7 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Administration of justice violations | 200 | 2.7 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15 | 0.2 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 39 | 0.5 | 83% |
| Impaired driving | 112.3 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 114.3 | 1.6 | 13% |
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.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Marie-Salomé
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé | 1,296 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Crabtree | 4,237 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Jacques | 4,830 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| L'Épiphanie | 9,254 | — | — | — |
| Saint-Paul | 7,208 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| L'Assomption | 25,126 | 39.2 | 59 | A |
| Saint-Liguori | 2,268 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
1 of the 3 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Sainte-Marie-Salomé. L'Assomption, 9.6 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 39.2 to 54. The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Sainte-Marie-Salomé shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Sainte-Marie-Salomé
Is Sainte-Marie-Salomé safe?
Sainte-Marie-Salomé scores 54 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 11.3 violent incidents and 12.4 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Marie-Salomé?
Most often it is assault: 5.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.5 and other Criminal Code offences at 3.5.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Marie-Salomé?
Hardly at all, from 53.5 in 2023 to 56.1 in 2025.
How much of Sainte-Marie-Salomé’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 60% of violent crime and 29% of everything else, 44% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Sainte-Marie-Salomé together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).