Quebec, Canada222,516 residents2025 data

Is Richelieu Saint-Laurent safe?

Richelieu Saint-Laurent is among the safest places of its size. It ranks safer than 92% of Canadian police services covering 25,000+ people on reported crime per person, based on Statistics Canada figures for 2025.

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MkaeSense Safety IndexOut of 100. Higher is safer. Ranked 11 of 125 Canadian police services covering 25,000+ people, where 1 is safest.

How Richelieu Saint-Laurent compares

Every dot is one of the 125 Canadian police services covering 25,000+ people. Further right means more violent crimes per person.

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Richelieu Saint-Laurent's violent crime rate of 8.5 per 1,000 residents is higher than 16% of Canadian police services covering 25,000+ people. The Quebec average is 14.7 and the Canadian average is 14.4.

Year by year

Rate per 1,000 residents each year, compared with Quebec and Canada.

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When and how often cases are solved

Five-year change

Break-ins per 1,000 residents, 2020 to 2025.

Cases cleared in 2025

Share of reported offences police marked as cleared, usually by an arrest or charge.

Break-ins33%
Car theft26%
Theft41%
Violent crime81%

Nearby places

Safety Index for the closest places we cover. Higher is safer.

Protect your home in Richelieu Saint-Laurent

Picked for Richelieu Saint-Laurent's biggest gap against the Canadian average: violent crimes.

Common questions

Is Richelieu Saint-Laurent a safe place to live?

Richelieu Saint-Laurent is among the safest places of its size. Its MkaeSense Safety Index is 92 out of 100, which means it ranks safer than 92% of Canadian police services covering 25,000+ people on reported crime per person. Safety also varies a lot between neighbourhoods, so check the area you're looking at.

How common are break-ins in Richelieu Saint-Laurent?

Police recorded 180 break-ins in 2025, or 0.81 per 1,000 residents. The Canadian rate was 2.6 per 1,000.

Is car theft a problem in Richelieu Saint-Laurent?

There were 177 vehicle thefts in 2025, 0.8 per 1,000 residents, against 2.0 per 1,000 nationally. That is higher than 25% of Canadian police services covering 25,000+ people.

How is the Safety Index calculated?

We rank each place against others in the same country by its rate per person of violent crime (half the weight) and of property crime: break-ins, car theft and theft (the other half). The index is the share of places with a higher combined score. Where a police service did not report car thefts, its property crime is ranked on break-ins and theft only. It uses police-reported crime only, which depends on how often residents report. Full method, sources and a worked example.

Source: Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0179, Incident-based crime statistics by police service, 2025. Coverage is the Richelieu Saint-Laurent, Quebec police service area. Rates per 1,000 residents and the Safety Index are MkaeSense calculations. Police-reported crime does not include crimes that were never reported. MkaeSense is not affiliated with any police service.

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Data year 2025. Updated October 2026.

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MkaeSense. (2026). Is Richelieu Saint-Laurent safe? Safety Index and crime rates, 2025 data [Data set]. https://mkaesense.com/pages/city/richelieu-saint-laurent-qc