Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Sacré-Coeur is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Sacré-Coeur grades C+ for safety overall: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 20.1 violent incidents and 14.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, its Crime Severity Index averaged 72.5 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Haute-Côte-Nord MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sacré-Coeur
More severe than in 2023
From 55.8 in 2023 to 91.7 in 2025: that is Sacré-Coeur’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 54% of Sacré-Coeur’s crime, weighted by seriousness (64% of violent crime, 44% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Sacré-Coeur’s two halves part ways: 127.6 for violence (typical 86.4) and 51.1 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Sacré-Coeur’s index of 72.5 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: C+ for Sacré-Coeur
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.
Year by year in Sacré-Coeur: up 64%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 91.7; the lightest was 2023, at 55.8. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sacré-Coeur | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 70.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.8 | 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 Sacré-Coeur, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Sacré-Coeur’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Sacré-Coeur runs highest on assault (8.4 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6 | 0.6 | 38% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4 | 0.4 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 15.7 | 1.6 | 72% |
| Breaking and entering | 24 | 2.5 | 36% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 12.3 | 1.3 | 35% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 27 | 2.8 | 32% |
| Mischief | 26.3 | 2.7 | 34% |
| Weapons violations | 6.3 | 0.6 | 79% |
| Administration of justice violations | 49.7 | 5.1 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Drug violations | 14.7 | 1.5 | 63% |
| Impaired driving | 29.7 | 3 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 12.7 | 1.3 | 16% |
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.
9,750 residents, about 200 violent incidents a year: the police area Sacré-Coeur 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.
And about 140 property crimes, plus 130 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Sacré-Coeur
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sacré-Coeur | 1,679 | 72.5 | 127.6 | C+ |
| Les Escoumins (32 km) | 1,751 | 72.5 | 127.6 | C+ |
| L'Anse-Saint-Jean (34 km) | 1,310 | 48.7 | 80 | B+ |
| L'Isle-Verte (42 km) | 1,427 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Cacouna (42 km) | 1,888 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Saint-Siméon (43 km) | 1,113 | 57.2 | 83.8 | B |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Sacré-Coeur. L'Anse-Saint-Jean, 34.4 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 48.7 to 72.5. Its police also cover one neighbouring place, which carries the same index and is left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 32–43 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Sacré-Coeur.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Sacré-Coeur among them.
- Reading the number. 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.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Sacré-Coeur
Is Sacré-Coeur safe?
Sacré-Coeur’s Crime Severity Index is 72.5 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 20.1 violent incidents and 14.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Sacré-Coeur?
Assault is the most common, at 8.4 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (6.6) and Criminal Code traffic offences (5).
Is crime going up in Sacré-Coeur?
It went up 64% between 2023 and 2025, from 55.8 to 91.7.
How much of Sacré-Coeur’s crime do police solve?
About 54% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 64% of violent and 44% 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 Sacré-Coeur 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).