Photo: Michael Santschi · Public domainSainte-Sabine has more crime per resident than 61% of Canadian towns
Per 1,000 residents a year, 12.4 violent incidents and 12.4 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. The grade is C+, built on crime the police covering Sainte-Sabine reported from 2023 to 2025. Its 4 neighbours with figures all record less crime per resident. Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 64.4 to 67.4.
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 Brome-Missisquoi MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Sabine
Over the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Sainte-Sabine scores 72.8. 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.
Sainte-Sabine: C+ 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.
What police record in Sainte-Sabine, by type
Against the typical town its size, Sainte-Sabine runs highest on Cannabis Act offences (5 per 1,000 against 0.05) and drug offences (6.7 per 1,000 against 0.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 58.3 | 1 | 41% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 16 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 4.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.09 | 94% |
| Other violent violations | 13 | 0.2 | 44% |
| Breaking and entering | 104.7 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5 | 0.09 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 43.7 | 0.8 | 23% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 22.7 | 0.4 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 144.3 | 2.5 | 37% |
| Mischief | 118.7 | 2.1 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 9.3 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 126 | 2.2 | 97% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 30.7 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Drug violations | 385.7 | 6.7 | 18% |
| Impaired driving | 123.7 | 2.2 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 85 | 1.5 | 14% |
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-Sabine, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 86.7 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 64.4 in 2023. 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-Sabine | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 86.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 64.4 | 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-Sabine, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 710 violent incidents a year in the 58,000-resident police area around Sainte-Sabine, 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.
Add about 710 property crimes and 850 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Sabine
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Sabine | 1,123 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| Farnham | 11,315 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| Saint-Alexandre | 2,685 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville | 1,540 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Bedford | 2,845 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| Ange-Gardien | 3,100 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
| Mont-Saint-Grégoire | 3,158 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Sainte-Sabine. Saint-Alexandre, 8.9 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 62.8 to 72.8. 2 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
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Sainte-Sabine shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. 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.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Sabine
Is Sainte-Sabine safe?
Sainte-Sabine’s Crime Severity Index is 72.8 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 12.4 violent incidents and 12.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Sabine?
Top of the list is drug offences (6.7 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 6, and Cannabis Act offences, at 5, follow.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Sabine?
Barely: 64.4 in 2023, 67.4 in 2025.
How much of Sainte-Sabine’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 38% of crime (57% of violent crime, 27% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Sainte-Sabine 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).