Photo: Beauce1977 at English Wikipedia · Public domainPer resident, Frampton records less crime than 88% of Canadian towns
Each of the 3 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident. By contrast, recorded violent incidents ran at 8.2 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 8.8, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. The grade is A, built on crime the police covering Frampton reported from 2023 to 2025. Its violent half comes to 68.7 and its non-violent half to 25.6, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8.
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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Nouvelle-Beauce MRC.
What stands out about safety in Frampton
Heavier on violence
Frampton scores 68.7 for violence and 25.6 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Frampton scores 37.7. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 51% for Frampton (68% violent, 36% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
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 Frampton’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.
The police area Frampton is part of, 41,100 residents, recorded about 330 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 350 a year and other violations 230 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in Frampton, type by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 17.7 | 0.4 | 77% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Robbery | 4.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 9.3 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Breaking and entering | 44 | 1.1 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 28 | 0.7 | 35% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 13.3 | 0.3 | 23% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 70 | 1.7 | 42% |
| Mischief | 59 | 1.5 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 0.2 | 96% |
| Administration of justice violations | 53 | 1.3 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11.7 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Drug violations | 20.7 | 0.5 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 76.3 | 1.9 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 40 | 1 | 15% |
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.
Year by year in Frampton: down 8%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 47.7, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 31.3. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Frampton | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 47.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 34 | 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 Frampton, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Frampton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frampton | 1,374 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Malachie | 1,755 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saints-Anges | 1,364 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Sainte-Marguerite | 1,297 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Léon-de-Standon | 1,033 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Vallée-Jonction | 2,042 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Sainte-Claire | 3,724 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Frampton. The table leaves out 3 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Frampton alone.
- 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.
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Frampton
Is Frampton safe?
Police-reported crime in Frampton scores 37.7 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 8.2 violent incidents and 8.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Frampton?
Top of the list is assault (3.9 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 3.2, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.2, follow.
Is crime going up in Frampton?
No: the index fell 8%, from 34 in 2023 to 31.3 in 2025.
How much of Frampton’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 51% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 68% of violent crime and 36% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Frampton 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).