Photo: Providence Doucet providence · CC0Crabtree is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Each of the 3 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident. The overall Safety Grade is B− (#345 of 503 in Quebec), which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. In 2023 the index stood at 72; it fell to 63.4 in 2025. The yearly rates were 14.7 violent incidents and 19.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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. Measured across the Joliette MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Crabtree
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Crabtree (64% violent, 37% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Crabtree places 24th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
Crabtree’s index of 68.5 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Crabtree scores 107.8 for violence and 53.3 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
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 Crabtree, and how it is built
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.
Its place: #345 of 503 in Quebec and #1,340 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Crime in Crabtree, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Crabtree runs highest on drug offences (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.7) and sexual assault (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.9). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 67 | 0.9 | 54% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 25.3 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5 | 0.07 | 74% |
| Robbery | 15.3 | 0.2 | 54% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 14 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 24 | 0.3 | 55% |
| Breaking and entering | 129.7 | 1.7 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 19 | 0.3 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 210.7 | 2.8 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 42.7 | 0.6 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 409.3 | 5.5 | 39% |
| Mischief | 188 | 2.5 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 20.3 | 0.3 | 94% |
| Administration of justice violations | 302 | 4 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 27.7 | 0.4 | 88% |
| Drug violations | 106 | 1.4 | 98% |
| Impaired driving | 134.7 | 1.8 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 209.7 | 2.8 | 10% |
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 to 10,000 people.
Crabtree, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (72); the low point came in 2025, at 63.4. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Crabtree | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 70 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 72 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Crabtree, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Among 40 towns its size, Crabtree places 24th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lake of Bays Ontario | 4,105 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 8 | La Pocatière Quebec | 4,206 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| 9 | Beaupré Quebec | 4,314 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| 10 | L'Ange-Gardien Quebec | 4,106 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Carleton-sur-Mer Quebec | 4,175 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 21 | Rossland British Columbia | 4,355 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| 22 | Richmond County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 4,305 | 65.2 | 90.1 | B− |
| 23 | Grand Forks British Columbia | 4,308 | 67.5 | 73.9 | B− |
| 24 | Crabtree Quebec | 4,237 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 25 | Invermere British Columbia | 4,305 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
| 26 | Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast British Columbia | 4,279 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| 27 | Victoria County, Subdivision B Nova Scotia | 4,258 | 82.8 | 120.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Fort Nelson British Columbia | 4,144 | 263.7 | 376.9 | D |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Crabtree in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 1,090 violent incidents a year across the police area of 75,500 residents that includes Crabtree, 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 1,430 a year and other violations 860 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Crabtree
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crabtree | 4,237 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Paul | 7,208 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé | 1,296 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Joliette | 22,408 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Liguori | 2,268 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Jacques | 4,830 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée | 16,904 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Crabtree. Sainte-Marie-Salomé, 5.1 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 54 to 68.5. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 3 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Crabtree shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
Questions about safety in Crabtree
Is Crabtree safe?
Crabtree measures 68.5 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 14.7 violent incidents and 19.2 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Crabtree?
Most often it is assault: 7.3 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 5.5 and fraud at 5.2.
Is crime going up in Crabtree?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 12%, to 63.4 from 72.
How much of Crabtree’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 64% of violent crime and 37% of everything else, 49% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Crabtree 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).