Photo: Philippe Grégoire · CC BY-SA 3.0Scott has less crime per resident than 88% of Canadian towns
The grade is A, built on crime the police covering Scott reported from 2023 to 2025: #40 of 503 in Quebec. Behind the grade sit 8.2 violent incidents and 8.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Its violent half comes to 68.7 and its non-violent half to 25.6, where the norm is 85.7 and 62.8. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 34 to 31.3.
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 Nouvelle-Beauce MRC.
What stands out about safety in Scott
Violent crime leads the index
Scott’s index splits into violent crime, 68.7 here and 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 25.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Scott is 6th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Lighter than Quebec’s middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Scott scores 37.7. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Scott’s police clear 51%, 68% of violent crime and 36% of the rest. 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 Scott’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.
Its place: #40 of 503 in Quebec and #249 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What police record in Scott, by type
Assault and theft under $5,000 sit 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 to 10,000 people.
Among 40 towns its size, Scott places 6th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lorne Manitoba | 3,022 | 26.8 | 36.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Perry Ontario | 2,866 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| 4 | Cocagne New Brunswick | 2,982 | 34.5 | 31.3 | A |
| 5 | Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil Quebec | 2,999 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 6 | Scott Quebec | 2,938 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 7 | Stanstead Quebec | 2,994 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 8 | Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley Quebec | 2,938 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 9 | Black Diamond Alberta | 2,910 | 40.9 | 34.4 | A− |
| 10 | Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard Quebec | 3,018 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| 11 | Saint-Marc-des-Carrières Quebec | 2,961 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| 12 | Saint-Basile Quebec | 2,918 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Labelle Quebec | 2,861 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Lesser Slave River No. 124 Alberta | 2,980 | 170.9 | 107.9 | 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 Scott in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Scott 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.
Scott, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 47.7; 2025 was lightest, at 31.3. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Scott | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31.3 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 47.7 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 34 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Scott, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Scott
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | 2,938 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Bernard | 2,680 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Sainte-Marie | 13,873 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Isidore | 3,550 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Elzéar | 2,842 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Sainte-Hénédine | 1,550 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage | 1,303 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
5 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
- The clearance rate. 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.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Scott among them.
- What 100 means. 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 Scott
Is Scott safe?
Scott scores 37.7 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5; per 1,000 residents a year that is 8.2 violent incidents and 8.8 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Scott?
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 Scott?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 8%, to 31.3 from 34.
How much of Scott’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 68% of violent crime and 36% of everything else, 51% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Scott 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).