Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY 3.0Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
The index fell from 62 in 2023 to 54.3 in 2025. Overall, Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs grades B for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. By contrast, the yearly rates were 16.9 violent incidents and 14.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its violent half comes to 83.8 and its non-violent half to 47, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8.
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. Measured across the Charlevoix-Est MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
About 30% of Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs’s homes are cottages, second homes or otherwise empty much of the year: crime in the busy months is divided by year-round residents only, which lifts every rate here. How to read it ↓
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 56% of crime in Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 67% of violent crime and 49% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Near the Quebec middle
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs, 57.2. 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.
What sits behind Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs’s B
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.
Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs, year by year
Crime Severity Index
From 62 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 54.3 in 2025. 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 | Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 55.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 62 | 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 Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs runs highest on assault (8 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.4 | 65% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 12.3 | 0.8 | 81% |
| Breaking and entering | 35 | 2.2 | 46% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 15.3 | 1 | 35% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 44.3 | 2.8 | 45% |
| Mischief | 48.3 | 3.1 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 8.7 | 0.6 | 77% |
| Administration of justice violations | 46.7 | 3 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.7 | 0.4 | 58% |
| Drug violations | 17.3 | 1.1 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 38.7 | 2.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 30 | 1.9 | 29% |
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.
About 260 violent incidents a year across the police area of 15,500 residents that includes Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs, 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 220 property crimes, plus 160 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 Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs | 1,169 | 57.2 | 83.8 | B |
| Clermont | 3,117 | 57.2 | 83.8 | B |
| La Malbaie | 8,293 | 57.2 | 83.8 | B |
| Saint-Hilarion | 1,221 | 45 | 79.1 | A− |
2 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs
Is Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs scores 57.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 16.9 violent and 14.2 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs?
The three biggest groups are assault at 8, Criminal Code traffic offences at 5 and other Criminal Code offences at 4.3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 12%, to 54.3 from 62.
How much of Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs’s crime do police solve?
56%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 67% and non-violent crime at 49%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).