Photo: Malagauche · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Les Éboulements than in 77% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 79.1 and 31.7. The yearly rates were 11.7 violent incidents and 10.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, that puts it at A− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Les Éboulements reported from 2023 to 2025. For comparison, the middle Quebec town comes to 56.1.
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 Charlevoix MRC.
What stands out about safety in Les Éboulements
A busy place, counted per resident
With 31% of its homes not lived in all year, Les Éboulements counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 68% of Les Éboulements’s crime, weighted by seriousness (85% of violent crime, 51% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Lighter than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Les Éboulements moved from 55.9 to 40.3, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
The violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Les Éboulements’s two halves part ways: 79.1 for violence (typical 86.4) and 31.7 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Les Éboulements’s A−
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.
Les Éboulements’s index fell 28% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 55.9 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2024, at 38.7. 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 | Les Éboulements | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 38.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.9 | 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 Les Éboulements, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
14,300 residents, about 170 violent incidents a year: the police area Les Éboulements 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.
Property crime adds about 150 a year and other violations 120 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Les Éboulements’s crime by kind
Fraud and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7.3 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 15.3 | 1.1 | 52% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 5.7 | 0.4 | 65% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 37.7 | 2.7 | 47% |
| Mischief | 28.7 | 2 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 0.4 | 86% |
| Administration of justice violations | 29.3 | 2.1 | 93% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 22 | 1.6 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 45.3 | 3.2 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 10.3 | 0.7 | 39% |
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 Les Éboulements
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Éboulements | 1,661 | 45 | 79.1 | A− |
| L'Isle-aux-Coudres | 1,083 | 45 | 79.1 | A− |
| Saint-Hilarion | 1,221 | 45 | 79.1 | A− |
| Baie-Saint-Paul | 7,760 | 45 | 79.1 | A− |
| Saint-Urbain | 1,431 | 45 | 79.1 | A− |
Its police also cover 4 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
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- 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. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Les Éboulements shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Les Éboulements
Is Les Éboulements safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Les Éboulements scores 45 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 11.7 violent and 10.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Les Éboulements?
The three biggest groups are assault at 4.7, Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.3 and fraud at 3.9, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Les Éboulements?
The reverse: 55.9 in 2023 came down to 40.3 by 2025, 28% lower.
How much of Les Éboulements’s crime do police solve?
About 68% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 85% of violent and 51% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Les Éboulements and everywhere else it polices.
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).