Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Charette than in 79% of Canadian towns
The local count comes to 9.3 violent incidents and 12.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Of the two halves, violence comes to 60.8 and other offences to 38, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. A Safety Grade of A− follows from crime the police covering Charette reported over the years 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Maskinongé MRC.
What stands out about safety in Charette
More crime solved
Police cleared 51% of Charette’s crime, weighted by seriousness (79% of violent crime, 33% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
Charette’s index of 44.3 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
More severe than in 2023
Charette’s index went from 37.1 in 2023 to 45.2 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
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 Charette’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 Charette, up 22% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 50.5; 2023 was the lightest, at 37.1. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Charette | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 50.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 37.1 | 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 Charette, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Charette is part of, 38,800 residents, recorded about 360 violent incidents a year (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.
Property crime adds about 480 a year and other violations 260 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Charette’s crime by kind
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 21 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10.7 | 0.3 | 91% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Breaking and entering | 77.3 | 2 | 19% |
| Possession of stolen property | 13 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 72.3 | 1.9 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18.7 | 0.5 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 88.3 | 2.3 | 28% |
| Mischief | 69 | 1.8 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 7.7 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 78.7 | 2 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 0.3 | 77% |
| Drug violations | 28.3 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 66 | 1.7 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 46.7 | 1.2 | 25% |
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.
Crime in the places around Charette
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charette | 1,178 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Élie-de-Caxton | 2,062 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Boniface | 5,405 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Barnabé | 1,234 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Paulin | 1,659 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès | 4,675 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc | 1,598 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
6 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- An index, not a verdict. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Charette alone.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Charette
Is Charette safe?
With 9.3 violent incidents and 12.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Charette comes to 44.3 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Charette?
Assault is the most common, at 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (3.5) and Criminal Code traffic offences (3.4).
Is crime going up in Charette?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 22%, to 45.2 from 37.1.
How much of Charette’s crime do police solve?
51%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 79% and non-violent crime at 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Charette 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).