Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Sainte-Pétronille than in 98% of Canadian towns
Each of the 4 towns on its borders with figures records more crime per resident. That puts it at A+ for safety, judged on crime the police covering Sainte-Pétronille reported from 2023 to 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 6.6 violent incidents and 7.8 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Of the two halves, violence comes to 44.8 and other offences to 19.9, 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Île-d'Orléans MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Pétronille
Under the Quebec norm
Sainte-Pétronille’s index of 26.8 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 52% for Sainte-Pétronille (67% violent, 38% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Sainte-Pétronille scores 44.8 for violence and 19.9 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.
Sainte-Pétronille: A+ for safety, and why
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.
About 45 violent incidents a year across the police area of 6,750 residents that includes Sainte-Pétronille, 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 52 a year and other violations 33 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Year by year in Sainte-Pétronille: up 6%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 29.4; 2023 was the lightest, at 24.7. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Pétronille | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 29.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 24.7 | 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-Pétronille, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Sainte-Pétronille, type by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.10 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 6 | 0.9 | 38% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 11.7 | 1.7 | 49% |
| Mischief | 12 | 1.8 | 36% |
| Weapons violations | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 3 | 0.4 | — |
| Impaired driving | 10.7 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 11 | 1.6 | 12% |
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-Pétronille
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Pétronille | 1,015 | 26.8 | 44.8 | A+ |
| Chutes-Montmorency | 16,273 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Vieux-Bourg | 14,774 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans | 1,704 | 26.8 | 44.8 | A+ |
| Boischatel | 9,250 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans | 1,659 | 26.8 | 44.8 | A+ |
| Vieux-Moulin | 15,935 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Sainte-Pétronille. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Sainte-Pétronille alone.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Pétronille
Is Sainte-Pétronille safe?
The short answer is an index of 26.8 for Sainte-Pétronille (2023–2025), built from 6.6 violent incidents and 7.8 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Pétronille?
The three biggest groups are Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.5, fraud at 2.8 and assault at 2.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Pétronille?
It has: 24.7 in 2023 became 26.3 by 2025, a rise of 6%.
How much of Sainte-Pétronille’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 52% 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 shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Sainte-Pétronille 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).