Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Louis sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Violence accounts for an index of 89.4 and other offences for 53, against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2. The overall Safety Grade is B− (#289 of 503 in Quebec), which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Still, 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. Data for crime severity and crime rate covers the Québec service area.
What’s behind Saint-Louis’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades, since the figure covers the entire city rather than Saint-Louis 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: #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.
Which crimes make up Québec’s figures
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 Saint-Louis: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (63.5) and 2023 least (62.5). Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Louis | 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 Saint-Louis, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Louis
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Louis | 15,792 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Plateau | 14,176 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy | 14,541 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Cité-Universitaire | 22,546 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Sillery | 13,950 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Cap-Rouge | 17,139 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Sacrement | 10,650 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
Same police, same number: 6 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- What the index measures. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- City-wide figures. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Saint-Louis carries the city-wide figures.
Questions about safety in Saint-Louis
Is Saint-Louis safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Saint-Louis comes to 63. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 15.1 violent incidents and 22.1 property crimes. The middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Louis?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 8.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 6.8 and fraud at 5.9.
Is crime going up in Saint-Louis?
Hardly at all, from 62.5 in 2023 to 63.5 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Louis’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 37%: 53% for violent crime and 26% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ it 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).