Photo: P199 · Public domainSt.-Charles records less crime per resident than 70% of Canadian towns
For every 1,000 residents, 9.5 violent incidents and 14.1 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. Add to that, its letter for safety is B+, worked out from crime the police covering St.-Charles reported over 2023 to 2025. Split in two, the index gives 58.8 for violence and 46 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). In 2023 the index stood at 43.7; it rose to 49.6 in 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Sudbury detachment area.
What stands out about safety in St.-Charles
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; St.-Charles’s police clear 58%, 85% of violent crime and 44% of the rest. Questions ↓
Much like Ontario’s towns
The typical Ontario town scores 56.2; St.-Charles, 49.3. 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.
The B+ for St.-Charles, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 45 km from St.-Charles, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
What police record in St.-Charles, by type
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 | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 13 | 1.4 | 21% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 11.7 | 1.3 | 40% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9 | 1 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 30 | 3.3 | 21% |
| Mischief | 23.3 | 2.6 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 6.3 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 29.3 | 3.2 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.7 | 0.6 | 53% |
| Drug violations | 9 | 1 | 86% |
| Impaired driving | 32 | 3.5 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
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.
St.-Charles, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (54.8) and 2023 the trough (43.7). Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | St.-Charles | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 54.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 43.7 | 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 St.-Charles, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 87 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest St.-Charles (9,240 residents), 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 130 property crimes and 110 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 St.-Charles
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St.-Charles | 1,654 | 49.3 | 58.8 | B+ |
| Markstay-Warren (15 km) | 2,990 | 49.3 | 58.8 | B+ |
| French River / Rivière des Français (26 km) | 3,178 | 49.3 | 58.8 | B+ |
| Sturgeon Falls (32 km) | 16,682 | 66.8 | 82.7 | B− |
| Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury (49 km) | 188,504 | 69.9 | 115.3 | C+ |
St.-Charles has the lowest index of the places around it. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 15–49 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from St.-Charles.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in St.-Charles
Is St.-Charles safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, St.-Charles’s Crime Severity Index stands at 49.3 for 2023–2025. Its police record 9.5 violent incidents and 14.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in St.-Charles?
Criminal Code traffic offences is the most common, at 6.3 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (4.7) and assault (4.2).
Is crime going up in St.-Charles?
Up 13%: 43.7 in 2023, 49.6 in 2025.
How much of St.-Charles’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 58% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 85% of violent crime and 44% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving St.-Charles 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).