Photo: Nicogag · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Saints-Anges records less crime than 88% of Canadian towns
A Safety Grade of A follows from crime the police covering Saints-Anges reported over the years 2023 to 2025. In a usual year, 8.2 violent incidents and 8.8 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. Its violent half comes to 68.7 and its non-violent half to 25.6, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Neither of the two towns next door with figures records less crime per resident.
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 Nouvelle-Beauce MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saints-Anges
The violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Saints-Anges’s two halves part ways: 68.7 for violence (typical 86.4) and 25.6 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Below Quebec’s typical town
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saints-Anges, 37.7. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 51% of Saints-Anges’s crime, weighted by seriousness (68% of violent crime, 36% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
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 Saints-Anges’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.
The police area Saints-Anges is part of, 41,100 residents, recorded about 330 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 350 property crimes, plus 230 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Saints-Anges’s crime by kind
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 17.7 | 0.4 | 77% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Robbery | 4.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 9.3 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Breaking and entering | 44 | 1.1 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 28 | 0.7 | 35% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 13.3 | 0.3 | 23% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 70 | 1.7 | 42% |
| Mischief | 59 | 1.5 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 0.2 | 96% |
| Administration of justice violations | 53 | 1.3 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11.7 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Drug violations | 20.7 | 0.5 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 76.3 | 1.9 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 40 | 1 | 15% |
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Saints-Anges’s index dropped 8%
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (47.7) and 2025 the trough (31.3). Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saints-Anges | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 47.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 34 | 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 Saints-Anges, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saints-Anges
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saints-Anges | 1,364 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Vallée-Jonction | 2,042 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Frampton | 1,374 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce | 5,339 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Saint-Frédéric | 1,172 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Marguerite | 1,297 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Sainte-Marie | 13,873 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Saints-Anges. The table leaves out 4 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saints-Anges among them.
Questions about safety in Saints-Anges
Is Saints-Anges safe?
Police-reported crime in Saints-Anges scores 37.7 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 8.2 violent incidents and 8.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saints-Anges?
The three biggest groups are assault at 3.9, fraud at 3.2 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.2, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saints-Anges?
Down 8%: 34 in 2023, 31.3 in 2025.
How much of Saints-Anges’s crime do police solve?
51%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 68% and non-violent crime at 36%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saints-Anges 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).