Photo: Iceberg9999 · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime in Des Châtels is close to typical for Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 89.4 and other offences to 53, beside norms of 75.2 and 54.2. Its Safety Grade, B− (#289 of 503 in Quebec), rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. Even so, the yearly rates were 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 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. The crime severity and crime rate numbers here cover the Québec service area.
Inside Des Châtels’s B− for safety
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Des Châtels itself compares.
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: #289 of 503 in Quebec and #951 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 Québec, by type
These are Québec’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Québec runs highest on drug offences (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.9), assault (6.8 per 1,000 against 4.9) and sexual assault (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.8). Mischief and motor vehicle theft 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 | 158.7 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 294.3 | 0.5 | 91% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 40.7 | 0.07 | 58% |
| Robbery | 140.7 | 0.2 | 44% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 95.7 | 0.2 | 80% |
| Other violent violations | 222.7 | 0.4 | 48% |
| Breaking and entering | 1,561.3 | 2.5 | 19% |
| Possession of stolen property | 130.3 | 0.2 | 41% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 683.3 | 1.1 | 12% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 257.3 | 0.4 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 5,452.3 | 8.7 | 20% |
| Mischief | 1,807.7 | 2.9 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 160.7 | 0.3 | 56% |
| Administration of justice violations | 2,199 | 3.5 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 298.3 | 0.5 | 46% |
| Drug violations | 957.3 | 1.5 | 77% |
| Impaired driving | 933.7 | 1.5 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 522.3 | 0.8 | 10% |
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.
Des Châtels’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 63.5, and 2023 lowest at 62.5. 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 | Des Châtels | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63.5 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 63 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 62.5 | 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 Des Châtels, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Des Châtels
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Des Châtels | 14,836 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Loretteville | 15,653 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Wendake | 2,234 | 71.8 | 115.2 | C+ |
| L'Ancienne-Lorette | 17,876 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf | 37,164 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Val-Bélair | 30,003 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Émile | 16,893 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 5 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Des Châtels carries the city-wide figures.
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Des Châtels
Is Des Châtels safe?
Its police recorded 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Des Châtels a Crime Severity Index of 63. In the middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the figure is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Des Châtels?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 8.7, assault at 6.8 and fraud at 5.9, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Des Châtels?
Hardly at all, from 62.5 in 2023 to 63.5 in 2025.
How much of Des Châtels’s crime do police solve?
About 37% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 53% of violent and 26% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city police’s, as reported for the whole 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).