Photo: Khayman · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Sainte-Thérèse records less crime than 72% of Canadian towns
Each year brought 10.5 violent incidents and 17.2 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size). Add to that, its Safety Grade is B+, on crime the police covering Sainte-Thérèse reported from 2023 to 2025: #144 of 503 in Quebec. Split in two, the index gives 61 for violence and 43 for everything else (normally 89.4 and 56).
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. Shared with the rest of the Thérèse-de-Blainville service area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Thérèse
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 51% of crime in Sainte-Thérèse ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 78% of violent crime and 36% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 33%. Questions ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Sainte-Thérèse comes 17th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Near the Quebec middle
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Sainte-Thérèse, 47.9. 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.
Inside Sainte-Thérèse’s B+ for safety
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.
Its place: #144 of 503 in Quebec and #482 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Which crimes make up Sainte-Thérèse’s figures
Theft under $5,000 and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 12 | 0.1 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19 | 0.2 | 89% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.07 | 75% |
| Robbery | 19.7 | 0.2 | 62% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 19.7 | 0.2 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 143 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 16.3 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 131.7 | 1.6 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 26 | 0.3 | 24% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 522.3 | 6.5 | 39% |
| Mischief | 115.3 | 1.4 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 11.3 | 0.1 | 80% |
| Administration of justice violations | 147 | 1.8 | 98% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 22.7 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 53 | 0.7 | 68% |
| Impaired driving | 79.7 | 1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 189.3 | 2.4 | 22% |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
81,000 residents, about 840 violent incidents a year: the police area Sainte-Thérèse 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.
Add about 1,380 property crimes and 570 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Among 40 towns its size, Sainte-Thérèse places 17th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Beloeil Quebec | 25,240 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 13 | L'Assomption Quebec | 25,126 | 39.2 | 59 | A |
| 14 | La Prairie Quebec | 27,159 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 15 | Candiac Quebec | 24,920 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 16 | Port Perry Ontario | 23,928 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| 17 | Sainte-Thérèse Quebec | 27,253 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| 18 | Huntsville Ontario | 23,948 | 48.2 | 68.1 | B+ |
| 19 | Alma Quebec | 30,659 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| 20 | Wasaga Beach Ontario | 28,736 | 50 | 61.1 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville Quebec | 26,786 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| 23 | Saint-Lin--Laurentides Quebec | 26,673 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Fort St. John British Columbia | 24,383 | 200.6 | 214.9 | D |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Sainte-Thérèse in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
In Sainte-Thérèse, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 51.9, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2023, came in at 45.4. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Thérèse | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46.4 | 60 |
| 2024 | 51.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 45.4 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Sainte-Thérèse, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Thérèse
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Thérèse | 27,253 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| Boisbriand | 29,830 | — | — | — |
| Rosemère | 14,198 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| Blainville | 61,739 | 34.9 | 41.4 | A |
| Lorraine | 9,721 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| Sainte-Rose | 37,408 | 56.1 | 82.7 | B |
| Bois-des-Filion | 10,666 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
Sainte-Thérèse sits above 1 of the 2 neighbours with figures of their own. Blainville, 3.8 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 34.9 to 47.9. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 3 of them aren’t set against it.
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.”
- A regional police service. The service that polices Sainte-Thérèse reports once for its whole area, so the figures aren’t the town’s alone.
- Reading the number. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Thérèse
Is Sainte-Thérèse safe?
Sainte-Thérèse measures 47.9 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 10.5 violent incidents and 17.2 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Thérèse?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 6.5 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (5.7) and fraud (5).
Is crime going up in Sainte-Thérèse?
The index stayed close to where it was, 45.4 in 2023 and 46.4 in 2025.
How much of Sainte-Thérèse’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 51%: 78% for violent crime and 36% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Sainte-Thérèse 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).