Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Crime in Sainte-Thècle sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Overall, it grades B for safety. What’s more, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 55.4 to 48.7. The yearly rates were 13.0 violent incidents and 15.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Of the two halves, violence comes to 77.5 and other offences to 48.3, 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Mékinac MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Thècle
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 49% of crime in Sainte-Thècle ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 74% of violent crime and 34% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Sainte-Thècle’s index of 56.3 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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.
The B for Sainte-Thècle, and how it is built
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.
Which crimes make up Sainte-Thècle’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Sainte-Thècle runs highest on break and enter (3.2 per 1,000 against 2.5). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 9 | 0.7 | 81% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.7 | 0.6 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 41.3 | 3.2 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 32.3 | 2.5 | 3% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 0.6 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39.7 | 3 | 42% |
| Mischief | 31.3 | 2.4 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 41.3 | 3.2 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 12 | 0.9 | 81% |
| Impaired driving | 22 | 1.7 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 14.7 | 1.1 | 2% |
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-Thècle, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 64.9, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 48.7. 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-Thècle | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 64.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.4 | 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-Thècle, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Sainte-Thècle is part of, 13,200 residents, recorded about 170 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.
And about 210 property crimes, plus 110 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Thècle
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Thècle | 2,422 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Lac-aux-Sables | 1,463 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Saint-Tite | 3,759 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
2 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Sainte-Thècle among them.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Thècle
Is Sainte-Thècle safe?
Sainte-Thècle measures 56.3 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 13 violent incidents and 15.9 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Thècle?
Most often it is assault: 6.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 3.9 and fraud at 3.8.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Thècle?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 12%, to 48.7 from 55.4.
How much of Sainte-Thècle’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 49% of crime (74% of violent crime, 34% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Sainte-Thècle 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).