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Photo: Unknown Unknown · Public domainRecorded crime per resident is lower in Saint-Alban than in 78% of Canadian towns
Police counts work out at 9.8 violent incidents and 10.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2. Its violent half comes to 72 and its non-violent half to 34, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. The Safety Grade comes out at A−, drawn from crime the police covering Saint-Alban reported through 2023 to 2025. Even so, by 2025 the index had climbed to 44.1, up from 41.3 in 2023.
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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Portneuf MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Alban
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Alban’s police clear 54%, 67% of violent crime and 43% of the rest. Questions ↓
Lighter than Quebec’s middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Alban scores 44.5. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Saint-Alban’s index splits into violent crime, 72 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 34 against 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Saint-Alban: A− for safety, and why
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.
What police record in Saint-Alban, by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 38 | 0.7 | 69% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 13.7 | 0.2 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 6.3 | 0.1 | 95% |
| Other violent violations | 14 | 0.2 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 83 | 1.4 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 54.7 | 0.9 | 18% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.7 | 0.2 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 123.7 | 2.1 | 44% |
| Mischief | 136.7 | 2.3 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 11 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 150 | 2.6 | 83% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 18.7 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 60.7 | 1 | 86% |
| Impaired driving | 105.3 | 1.8 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 56.7 | 1 | 33% |
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 570 violent incidents a year across the police area of 59,200 residents that includes Saint-Alban, 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 630 property crimes, plus 440 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Saint-Alban, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 48.2, with 2023 the lightest at 41.3. 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-Alban | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 48.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 41.3 | 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-Alban, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Alban
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Alban | 1,264 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| Saint-Marc-des-Carrières | 2,961 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| Saint-Casimir | 1,506 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| Saint-Ubalde | 1,565 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| Deschambault-Grondines | 2,251 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| Portneuf | 3,410 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 5 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Alban among them.
- What 100 means. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Saint-Alban
Is Saint-Alban safe?
Police-reported crime in Saint-Alban scores 44.5 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 9.8 violent incidents and 10.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Alban?
The three biggest groups are assault at 4.2, fraud at 3.4 and other Criminal Code offences at 3.3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Alban?
It went up 7% between 2023 and 2025, from 41.3 to 44.1.
How much of Saint-Alban’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 54% of crime (67% of violent crime, 43% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Alban 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).