Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Frontenac records less crime per resident than seven in ten Canadian towns
Its letter for safety is B+, worked out from crime the police covering Frontenac reported over 2023 to 2025. Split in two, the index gives 81.3 for violence and 35.6 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Per 1,000 residents a year, 12.9 violent incidents and 10.3 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Granit MRC.
What stands out about safety in Frontenac
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 52% of crime in Frontenac ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 67% of violent crime and 39% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 81.3 on Frontenac’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 35.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 48.4 in Frontenac. 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 Frontenac’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.
Around 290 violent incidents a year in the 22,700-resident police area around Frontenac, 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 230 property crimes, plus 160 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Which crimes make up Frontenac’s figures
Assault and fraud sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 16.7 | 0.7 | 48% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 15 | 0.7 | 65% |
| Breaking and entering | 30 | 1.3 | 34% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.3 | 40% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.3 | 0.9 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5 | 0.2 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39 | 1.7 | 44% |
| Mischief | 46 | 2 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 7.3 | 0.3 | 86% |
| Administration of justice violations | 40 | 1.8 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 0.3 | 94% |
| Drug violations | 27.7 | 1.2 | 51% |
| Impaired driving | 33.7 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 22 | 1 | 9% |
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 Frontenac: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 52; 2025 was lightest, at 46.2. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Frontenac | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 52 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 47 | 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 Frontenac, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Frontenac
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontenac | 1,855 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Lac-Mégantic | 5,947 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Nantes | 1,412 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
2 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- What the index measures. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Frontenac shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Frontenac
Is Frontenac safe?
Frontenac’s Crime Severity Index is 48.4 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 12.9 violent incidents and 10.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Frontenac?
Police record assault most, 5.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (3.8) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.8).
Is crime going up in Frontenac?
Barely: 47 in 2023, 46.2 in 2025.
How much of Frontenac’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 52%: 67% for violent crime and 39% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Frontenac 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).