Photo: Daniel U. Thibault · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Its letter overall is B− (#289 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Split in two, the index gives 89.4 for violence and 53 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2).
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 published for the Québec service area, not by town.
What’s behind Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf’s grade
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf can differ a long way from its city’s average.
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.
Year by year in Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (63.5) and 2023 least (62.5). The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf | 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 Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf | 37,164 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Duberger—Les Saules | 27,419 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Charlesbourg | 9,660 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Rodrigue | 12,018 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Émile | 16,893 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Des Châtels | 14,836 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Loretteville | 15,653 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
Sharing its police with 6 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf carries the city-wide figures.
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
Questions about safety in Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf
Is Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf safe?
Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf scores 63 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3; per 1,000 residents a year that is 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (8.7 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 6.8, and fraud, at 5.9, follow.
Is crime going up in Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 62.5 to 63.5.
How much of Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 53% of violent crime and 26% of everything else, 37% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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).