Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Sainte-Perpétue than in 80% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 73 and 32.4. That puts it at A− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Sainte-Perpétue reported from 2023 to 2025. The local count comes to 11.5 violent incidents and 10.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the L'Islet MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Perpétue
A high clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Sainte-Perpétue’s police clear 56%, 77% of violent crime and 36% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Sainte-Perpétue’s index splits into violent crime, 73 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 32.4 against 62.8. By type ↓
Under the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Sainte-Perpétue scores 43.7. Towns its size ↓
Rising since 2023
Sainte-Perpétue’s index went from 41.4 in 2023 to 48.8 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
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-Perpétue’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.
From 2023 to 2025, Sainte-Perpétue’s index climbed 18%
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 48.8, and 2024 lowest at 40.9. 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-Perpétue | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48.8 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 40.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 41.4 | 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-Perpétue, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
17,800 residents, about 210 violent incidents a year: the police area Sainte-Perpétue 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 190 a year and other violations 130 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
What police record in Sainte-Perpétue, by type
Fraud and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6 | 0.3 | 72% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.3 | 0.4 | 51% |
| Breaking and entering | 27.3 | 1.5 | 22% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 12 | 0.7 | 33% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 34.7 | 1.9 | 38% |
| Mischief | 47.3 | 2.7 | 37% |
| Weapons violations | 6.3 | 0.4 | 100% |
| Administration of justice violations | 36 | 2 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5 | 0.3 | 80% |
| Drug violations | 15.3 | 0.9 | 61% |
| Impaired driving | 31.7 | 1.8 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 23.7 | 1.3 | 28% |
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-Perpétue
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Perpétue | 1,698 | 43.7 | 73 | A− |
| Saint-Pamphile (15 km) | 2,391 | 43.7 | 73 | A− |
| Saint-Aubert (23 km) | 1,387 | 43.7 | 73 | A− |
| Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (31 km) | 3,330 | 43.7 | 73 | A− |
| L'Islet (34 km) | 3,874 | 43.7 | 73 | A− |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (34 km) | 1,635 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
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. Sainte-Perpétue has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 15–34 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Sainte-Perpétue alone.
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- What clearance means. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
Questions about safety in Sainte-Perpétue
Is Sainte-Perpétue safe?
Sainte-Perpétue measures 43.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 11.5 violent incidents and 10.7 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Perpétue?
Most often it is assault: 4.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.6 and fraud at 3.6.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Perpétue?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 18%, to 48.8 from 41.4.
How much of Sainte-Perpétue’s crime do police solve?
About 56% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 77% of violent and 36% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Sainte-Perpétue 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).