Photo: Interaction Qui Ltée · Public domainHébertville-Station sees less crime per resident than 69% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 81.8 and 37.1. Recorded violent incidents ran at 12.1 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 11.6, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Graded on crime the police covering Hébertville-Station reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores B+ for safety.
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: the Lac-Saint-Jean-Est MRC.
What stands out about safety in Hébertville-Station
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 59% of Hébertville-Station’s crime, weighted by seriousness (73% of violent crime, 46% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Hébertville-Station’s two halves part ways: 81.8 for violence (typical 86.4) and 37.1 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Easing since 2023
Hébertville-Station’s index went from 51.8 in 2023 to 43.2 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
About the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Hébertville-Station scores 49.6. 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 Hébertville-Station, 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
In Hébertville-Station, down 17% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 53.7 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 43.2 in 2025. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Hébertville-Station | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 53.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 51.8 | 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 Hébertville-Station, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 650 violent incidents a year across the police area of 53,800 residents that includes Hébertville-Station, 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 620 property crimes and 430 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Hébertville-Station’s crime by kind
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 42.7 | 0.8 | 56% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 15 | 0.3 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 7.3 | 0.1 | 92% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 6 | 0.1 | 95% |
| Other violent violations | 9.7 | 0.2 | 62% |
| Breaking and entering | 109.3 | 2 | 40% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11.7 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 60.7 | 1.1 | 36% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.7 | 0.3 | 13% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 170.7 | 3.2 | 34% |
| Mischief | 92 | 1.7 | 31% |
| Weapons violations | 10.3 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 135.7 | 2.5 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 22.7 | 0.4 | 85% |
| Drug violations | 72.3 | 1.3 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 94 | 1.8 | 92% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 64.7 | 1.2 | 17% |
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 Hébertville-Station
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hébertville-Station | 1,298 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Bruno | 2,935 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Hébertville | 2,588 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Gédéon | 2,349 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Larouche | 1,734 | 48.7 | 80 | B+ |
| Alma | 30,659 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix | 4,230 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
Its police also cover 5 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Hébertville-Station shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Hébertville-Station
Is Hébertville-Station safe?
Police-reported crime in Hébertville-Station scores 49.6 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 12.1 violent incidents and 11.6 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 Hébertville-Station?
Top of the list is assault (5.5 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 3.4, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Hébertville-Station?
It went down 17% between 2023 and 2025, from 51.8 to 43.2.
How much of Hébertville-Station’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 59% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 73% of violent crime and 46% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Hébertville-Station 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).