Photo: Red Castle · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime in Saint-Quentin is close to typical for Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 71.2 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, the yearly rates were 16.4 violent incidents and 26.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Saint-Quentin grades C+ for safety overall: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Saint Quentin detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Quentin
Down since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Saint-Quentin moved from 86.6 to 59, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Saint-Quentin records 8.4 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
A low clearance rate
Police cleared 20% of Saint-Quentin’s crime, weighted by seriousness (39% of violent crime, 11% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Much like New Brunswick’s towns
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 71.2 in Saint-Quentin. 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.
Inside Saint-Quentin’s C+ for safety
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.
Saint-Quentin’s index fell 32% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 86.6, and its lowest 2025, at 59. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Quentin | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 67.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 86.6 | 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 Saint-Quentin, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Saint-Quentin’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Quentin runs highest on mischief (8.4 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.5) and motor vehicle theft (4.1 per 1,000 against 2.4). Fraud and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 29.3 | 4.4 | 10% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.3 | 1.1 | 23% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 27.7 | 4.1 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 16 | 2.4 | 6% |
| Mischief | 56 | 8.4 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 17.7 | 2.6 | 38% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12 | 1.8 | 14% |
| Drug violations | 3.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Impaired driving | 9.3 | 1.4 | 51% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
Around 110 violent incidents a year in the 6,750-resident police area around Saint-Quentin, 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 180 property crimes, plus 72 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Quentin
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Quentin | 1,588 | 71.2 | 83.8 | C+ |
| Saint-Quentin | 2,294 | 71.2 | 83.8 | C+ |
| Kedgwick | 2,051 | 71.2 | 83.8 | C+ |
The comparison skips 2 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- 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.”
- A wider policing area. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Saint-Quentin together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
Questions about safety in Saint-Quentin
Is Saint-Quentin safe?
Its police recorded 16.4 violent incidents and 26.4 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Saint-Quentin a Crime Severity Index of 71.2. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Quentin?
Most often it is mischief: 8.4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 7.6 and assault at 5.3.
Is crime going up in Saint-Quentin?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 32%, to 59 from 86.6.
How much of Saint-Quentin’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 20% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 39% of violent crime and 11% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Quentin 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).