Photo: Chicoutimi · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Stanstead runs lower than in 84% of Canadian towns
On crime the police covering Stanstead reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A− for safety: #73 of 503 in Quebec. About 40% of crime here is cleared by police, set against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size. What’s more, in a usual year, 8.2 violent incidents and 7.9 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.9 and 31.2. Its violent half comes to 58.3 and its non-violent half to 32.9, where the norm is 85.7 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts for the Memphrémagog MRC.
What stands out about safety in Stanstead
Less severe than in 2023
From 45.1 in 2023 to 34.8 in 2025: that is Stanstead’s index, against 74.3 and 64.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Stanstead is 6th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Under the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Stanstead scores 39.9. 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.
What sits behind Stanstead’s A−
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: #73 of 503 in Quebec and #306 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.
Stanstead’s index fell 23% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 45.1, and 2025 the lightest at 34.8. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Stanstead | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34.8 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 39.9 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 45.1 | 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 Stanstead, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Stanstead is 6th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lorne Manitoba | 3,022 | 26.8 | 36.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Cocagne New Brunswick | 2,982 | 34.5 | 31.3 | A |
| 4 | Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil Quebec | 2,999 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 5 | Scott Quebec | 2,938 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 6 | Stanstead Quebec | 2,994 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 7 | Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley Quebec | 2,938 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 8 | Black Diamond Alberta | 2,910 | 40.9 | 34.4 | A− |
| 9 | Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard Quebec | 3,018 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| 10 | Saint-Marc-des-Carrières Quebec | 2,961 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| 11 | Saint-Basile Quebec | 2,918 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Cap-Saint-Ignace Quebec | 3,074 | 48.4 | 77.8 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 18 | Saint-Bruno Quebec | 2,935 | 49.6 | 81.8 | 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 Stanstead in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Which crimes make up Stanstead’s figures
Assault and fraud sit below it.
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 to 10,000 people.
About 150 violent incidents a year across the police area of 18,800 residents that includes Stanstead, 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 150 property crimes and 210 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Stanstead
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanstead | 2,994 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| Stanstead | 1,171 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| Ayer's Cliff | 1,284 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Stanstead alone.
- Reading the number. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Stanstead
Is Stanstead safe?
Stanstead measures 39.9 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 8.2 violent incidents and 7.9 property crimes.
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 its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 59% and non-violent crime at 26%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Stanstead 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).