Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0For recorded crime, Saint-François sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Saint-François’s overall Safety Grade is B (#242 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Its violent half comes to 82.7 and its non-violent half to 45.9, where the norm is 75.2 and 54.2. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 57.2 to 52.9. The local count comes to 12.3 violent incidents and 17.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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 and crime rate: one figure for all of the Laval service area.
What’s behind Saint-François’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades, since the figure covers the entire city rather than Saint-François alone.
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: #242 of 503 in Quebec and #736 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Crime across Laval, by type
These are Laval’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Laval runs highest on drug offences (2.1 per 1,000 against 0.9), assault (6.5 per 1,000 against 4.9) and motor vehicle theft (2 per 1,000 against 1.7). Theft under $5,000 and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 4.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 92 | 0.2 | 47% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 163.3 | 0.4 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 30.3 | 0.07 | 35% |
| Robbery | 194 | 0.4 | 44% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 44.7 | 0.10 | 82% |
| Other violent violations | 120 | 0.3 | 66% |
| Breaking and entering | 665.3 | 1.5 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 164.3 | 0.4 | 66% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 919.3 | 2 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 176 | 0.4 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 3,063.3 | 6.7 | 27% |
| Mischief | 922.7 | 2 | 19% |
| Weapons violations | 184 | 0.4 | 71% |
| Administration of justice violations | 1,363.7 | 3 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 313.7 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 971.7 | 2.1 | 61% |
| Impaired driving | 400 | 0.9 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1,053.7 | 2.3 | 15% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
Saint-François, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 58.1; 2025 was the lightest, at 52.9. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ read 64.3 (2023), then 59.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-François | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52.9 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 58.1 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 57.2 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-François, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Saint-François
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-François | 15,338 | 56.1 | 82.7 | B |
| Rivière-des-Prairies | 21,852 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Marc-Aurèle-Fortin | 36,220 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Est (Montréal-Nord) | 31,383 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Pointe-aux-Trembles | 49,869 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Terrebonne | 126,872 | 41.6 | 72.5 | A− |
| Anjou | 43,243 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
1 of the 6 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Saint-François. The nearest of them, Terrebonne (7.9 km away), scores 41.6 against 56.1.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- 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.”
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. The figures for Saint-François are city-wide: neighbourhood counts aren’t published as open data here.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Saint-François
Is Saint-François safe?
Saint-François measures 56.1 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 12.3 violent incidents and 17.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-François?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 6.7 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (6.5) and other Criminal Code offences (4.5).
Is crime going up in Saint-François?
It went down 8% between 2023 and 2025, from 57.2 to 52.9.
How much of Saint-François’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 43% of crime (60% of violent crime, 31% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ clears 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the city.
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).