Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Bonaventure sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Both towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Steady over the three years, the index read 74.7 in 2023 and 72.3 in 2025. Across all the graded crimes, Saint-Bonaventure lands on C+: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Each year brought 18.0 violent incidents and 19.5 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in 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 for the Drummond MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Bonaventure
The violent half stands out
Saint-Bonaventure scores 124.7 for violence and 51.8 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Saint-Bonaventure (63% violent, 35% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Bonaventure scores 72.2. 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’s behind Saint-Bonaventure’s grade
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.
Crime in Saint-Bonaventure, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Bonaventure runs highest on assault (8.9 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 156.7 | 1.4 | 60% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 36.7 | 0.3 | 98% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 33.3 | 0.3 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 21 | 0.2 | 87% |
| Other violent violations | 58 | 0.5 | 72% |
| Breaking and entering | 255.7 | 2.2 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 44 | 0.4 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 221 | 1.9 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 47.7 | 0.4 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 609.3 | 5.3 | 36% |
| Mischief | 364 | 3.2 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 29.3 | 0.3 | 71% |
| Administration of justice violations | 377.3 | 3.3 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 59 | 0.5 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 146.7 | 1.3 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 261.3 | 2.3 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 260.7 | 2.3 | 12% |
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.
Saint-Bonaventure, year by year
Crime Severity Index
From 74.7 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 69.4 in 2024. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Bonaventure | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 69.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 74.7 | 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-Bonaventure, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 2,050 violent incidents a year across the police area of 115,700 residents that includes Saint-Bonaventure, 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.
Add about 2,220 property crimes and 1,200 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Bonaventure
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Bonaventure | 1,086 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham | 1,373 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Guillaume | 1,489 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Germain-de-Grantham | 5,054 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Pierreville | 2,154 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-François-du-Lac | 1,927 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Eugène | 1,180 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
Saint-Bonaventure has the highest index of the places around it. Just 16.6 km away, Pierreville comes to 56.5, against 72.2. Its police also cover 4 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- 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. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Bonaventure shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Saint-Bonaventure
Is Saint-Bonaventure safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint-Bonaventure at 72.2 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 18 and property crimes at 19.5 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Bonaventure?
The three biggest groups are assault at 8.9, fraud at 5.5 and theft under $5,000 at 5.3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Bonaventure?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 74.7 to 72.3.
How much of Saint-Bonaventure’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 63% of violent crime and 35% of everything else, 49% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Bonaventure 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).