Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Saint-Chrysostome runs higher than in 86% of Canadian towns
The grade is D, built on crime the police covering Saint-Chrysostome reported from 2023 to 2025: #498 of 503 in Quebec. Recorded violent incidents ran at 18.8 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 13.1, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Of the two halves, violence comes to 141 and other offences to 113, beside norms of 85.7 and 62.8. The index fell from 105.6 in 2023 to 95 in 2025.
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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Haut-Saint-Laurent MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Chrysostome
Higher than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Chrysostome scores 120.3. Towns its size ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Saint-Chrysostome is 37th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. 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.
Inside Saint-Chrysostome’s D for safety
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: #498 of 503 in Quebec and #2,281 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Saint-Chrysostome is 37th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonfield Ontario | 2,597 | 24.3 | 39.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Saint-Bernard Quebec | 2,680 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 6 | Eastman Quebec | 2,706 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 7 | Saint-Mathieu Quebec | 2,642 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Sainte-Croix Quebec | 2,612 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 34 | Bouctouche New Brunswick | 2,678 | 102 | 100.1 | C− |
| 35 | Sundre Alberta | 2,683 | 115.4 | 138.1 | C− |
| 36 | Grand Manan New Brunswick | 2,648 | 118.7 | 156 | C− |
| 37 | Saint-Chrysostome Quebec | 2,641 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| 38 | Swan Valley West Manitoba | 2,702 | 169.9 | 227.9 | D |
| 39 | High Prairie Alberta | 2,607 | 334.5 | 521.9 | D− |
| 40 | La Ronge Saskatchewan | 2,668 | 715.9 | 1,169 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Saint-Chrysostome in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
What police record in Saint-Chrysostome, by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Chrysostome runs highest on assault (9.3 per 1,000 against 6.7). Break and enter and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 25 | 1.1 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.2 | 86% |
| Other violent violations | 11 | 0.5 | 66% |
| Breaking and entering | 49 | 2.1 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.3 | 0.4 | 35% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 37.7 | 1.6 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10.3 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 44 | 1.9 | 36% |
| Mischief | 57.7 | 2.4 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 14.3 | 0.6 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 70.7 | 3 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 86.7 | 3.7 | 20% |
| Drug violations | 33.3 | 1.4 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 48.3 | 2.1 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 29 | 1.2 | 28% |
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 to 10,000 people.
24,100 residents, about 450 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Chrysostome 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.
Property crime adds about 310 a year and other violations 930 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Saint-Chrysostome, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 160.3; 2025 was lightest, at 95. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Chrysostome | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 160.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 105.6 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-Chrysostome, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Saint-Chrysostome
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Chrysostome | 2,641 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Sainte-Clotilde | 3,297 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Hemmingford | 2,206 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Très-Saint-Sacrement | 1,223 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Saint-Urbain-Premier | 1,380 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| Franklin | 1,754 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| Sainte-Martine | 5,884 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Saint-Chrysostome. Sainte-Clotilde, 6.7 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 116.5 to 120.3. 2 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “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’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Chrysostome alone.
Questions about safety in Saint-Chrysostome
Is Saint-Chrysostome safe?
The short answer is an index of 120.3 for Saint-Chrysostome (2023–2025), built from 18.8 violent incidents and 13.1 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the median is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Chrysostome?
Top of the list is assault (9.3 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 7.6, and fraud, at 4, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Chrysostome?
It went down 10% between 2023 and 2025, from 105.6 to 95.
How much of Saint-Chrysostome’s crime do police solve?
38%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 71% and non-violent crime at 20%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Chrysostome together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).