Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Sainte-Ursule sees less crime per resident than 79% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 60.8 for violence and 38 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Its Safety Grade is A−, on crime the police covering Sainte-Ursule reported from 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 9.3 violent incidents and 12.6 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Maskinongé MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Ursule
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 51% of Sainte-Ursule’s crime, weighted by seriousness (79% of violent crime, 33% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Below Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 44.3 in Sainte-Ursule. Towns its size ↓
More severe than in 2023
From 37.1 in 2023 to 45.2 in 2025: that is Sainte-Ursule’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. 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-Ursule’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.
In Sainte-Ursule, up 22% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 50.5 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 37.1 in 2023. 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-Ursule | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 50.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 37.1 | 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-Ursule, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Sainte-Ursule’s crime by kind
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 21 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10.7 | 0.3 | 91% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Breaking and entering | 77.3 | 2 | 19% |
| Possession of stolen property | 13 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 72.3 | 1.9 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18.7 | 0.5 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 88.3 | 2.3 | 28% |
| Mischief | 69 | 1.8 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 7.7 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 78.7 | 2 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 0.3 | 77% |
| Drug violations | 28.3 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 66 | 1.7 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 46.7 | 1.2 | 25% |
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.
The police area Sainte-Ursule is part of, 38,800 residents, recorded about 360 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 480 property crimes, plus 260 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-Ursule
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Ursule | 1,363 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Maskinongé | 2,457 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Louiseville | 7,570 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Paulin | 1,659 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Barthélemy | 2,115 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Yamachiche | 2,801 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Alexis-des-Monts | 3,190 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
The comparison skips 5 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “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-Ursule among them.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Sainte-Ursule
Is Sainte-Ursule safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Sainte-Ursule’s Crime Severity Index stands at 44.3 for 2023–2025. Its police record 9.3 violent incidents and 12.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Ursule?
Police record assault most, 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (3.5) and Criminal Code traffic offences (3.4).
Is crime going up in Sainte-Ursule?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 22%, to 45.2 from 37.1.
How much of Sainte-Ursule’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 51% of crime (79% of violent crime, 33% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Sainte-Ursule 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).