Photo: Groupe de recherche en art du Québec · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Stanstead than in 84% of Canadian towns
Police cleared 40% of incidents, weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Scored on crime the police covering Stanstead reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A− for safety. Add to that, the local count comes to 8.2 violent incidents and 7.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Of the two halves, violence comes to 58.3 and other offences to 32.9, 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Memphrémagog MRC.
What stands out about safety in Stanstead
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
With 42% of its homes not lived in all year, Stanstead counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Down since 2023
Stanstead’s index went from 45.1 in 2023 to 34.8 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Below Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 39.9 in Stanstead. 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.
What’s behind Stanstead’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.
Year by year in Stanstead: down 23%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 45.1, and its lowest 2025, at 34.8. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Stanstead | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34.8 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 39.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 45.1 | 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 Stanstead, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
18,800 residents, about 150 violent incidents a year: the police area Stanstead 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.
Property crime adds about 150 a year and other violations 210 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in Stanstead, type by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 11 | 0.6 | 48% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 32.3 | 1.8 | 16% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13 | 0.7 | 2% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.7 | 0.4 | 10% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 21.7 | 1.2 | 23% |
| Mischief | 23.3 | 1.3 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 15.3 | 0.8 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11 | 0.6 | 27% |
| Drug violations | 9.3 | 0.5 | 29% |
| Impaired driving | 25.7 | 1.4 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 13.3 | 0.7 | 10% |
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.
Crime in the places around Stanstead
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanstead | 1,171 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| Ayer's Cliff | 1,284 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| Stanstead | 2,994 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| Magog | 30,764 | 42 | 55.3 | A− |
| Bolton-Est | 1,337 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| Austin | 1,959 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley | 2,938 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
5 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Stanstead among them.
Questions about safety in Stanstead
Is Stanstead safe?
Its police recorded 8.2 violent incidents and 7.9 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Stanstead a Crime Severity Index of 39.9. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Stanstead?
Assault is the most common, at 3.6 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (2.4) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.3).
Is crime going up in Stanstead?
It went down 23% between 2023 and 2025, from 45.1 to 34.8.
How much of Stanstead’s crime do police solve?
40%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 59% and non-violent crime at 26%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Stanstead and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).