Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Crime in Saint-Quentin sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Saint-Quentin at C+: close to the middle of Canadian towns. On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 71.2, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. Per 1,000 residents a year, 16.4 violent incidents and 26.4 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Saint Quentin detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Quentin
Easing 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 ↓
Police clear less here
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
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; Saint-Quentin, 71.2. 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 Saint-Quentin’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.
In Saint-Quentin, down 32% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 86.6; the lightest was 2025, at 59. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 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). Assault and theft under $5,000 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.
About 110 violent incidents a year across the police area of 6,750 residents that includes 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 | 2,294 | 71.2 | 83.8 | C+ |
| Saint-Quentin | 1,588 | 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
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- 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. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Saint-Quentin is one part.
- What 100 means. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Saint-Quentin
Is Saint-Quentin safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint-Quentin at 71.2 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 16.4 and property crimes at 26.4 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Quentin?
Police record mischief most, 8.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (7.6) and assault (5.3).
Is crime going up in Saint-Quentin?
Down 32%: 86.6 in 2023, 59 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Quentin’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 39% of violent crime and 11% of everything else, 20% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Quentin 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).