Photo: Adqproductions · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Hébertville than in 69% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 81.8 for violence and 37.1 for everything else (normally 85.7 and 62.8). Across Quebec’s towns, the middle index is 56.1. Its Safety Grade is B+, on crime the police covering Hébertville reported from 2023 to 2025: #163 of 503 in Quebec. Year on year, 12.1 violent incidents and 11.6 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 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 Lac-Saint-Jean-Est MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Hébertville
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 59% of Hébertville’s crime, weighted by seriousness (73% of violent crime, 46% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Hébertville stands 14th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Hébertville’s two halves part ways: 81.8 for violence (typical 85.7) and 37.1 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Easing since 2023
In 2023 the index in Hébertville stood at 51.8, by 2025 at 43.2. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. 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.
Inside Hébertville’s B+ for safety
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: #163 of 503 in Quebec and #521 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.
Hébertville’s crime by kind
Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit 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 to 10,000 people.
In Hébertville, down 17% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 53.7, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 43.2. The typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Hébertville | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 53.7 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 51.8 | 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 Hébertville, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Hébertville comes 14th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonfield Ontario | 2,597 | 24.3 | 39.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Saint-Polycarpe Quebec | 2,549 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 6 | Hatley Quebec | 2,512 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 7 | Saint-Mathieu Quebec | 2,642 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Sainte-Croix Quebec | 2,612 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton Quebec | 2,650 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| 12 | East River, Part 1 Prince Edward Island | 2,657 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| 13 | Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce Quebec | 2,575 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| 14 | Hébertville Quebec | 2,588 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| 15 | Rosetown Saskatchewan | 2,600 | 54.6 | 46.6 | B |
| 16 | Saint-Léonard-d'Aston Quebec | 2,662 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 17 | Saint-Damien Quebec | 2,569 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | High Prairie Alberta | 2,607 | 334.5 | 521.9 | 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 Hébertville in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
53,800 residents, about 650 violent incidents a year: the police area Hébertville belongs to, 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 620 property crimes, plus 430 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Hébertville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hébertville | 2,588 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Hébertville-Station | 1,298 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Bruno | 2,935 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Gédéon | 2,349 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix | 4,230 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Larouche | 1,734 | 48.7 | 80 | B+ |
| Alma | 30,659 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
5 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
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Hébertville alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
Questions about safety in Hébertville
Is Hébertville safe?
Against a typical 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Hébertville’s Crime Severity Index stands at 49.6 for 2023–2025. Its police record 12.1 violent incidents and 11.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Hébertville?
Most often it is assault: 5.5 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 3.4 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.3.
Is crime going up in Hébertville?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 17%, to 43.2 from 51.8.
How much of Hébertville’s crime do police solve?
About 59% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 73% of violent and 46% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Hébertville together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).