Photo: Normand Lemieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Claude sees less crime per resident than 76% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 82.8 and other offences for 30.3, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Each year brought 10.5 violent incidents and 11.1 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). That puts it at A− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Saint-Claude reported from 2023 to 2025. In 2023 the index stood at 50.5; it fell to 43.6 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Val-Saint-François MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Claude
Violent crime leads the index
Saint-Claude scores 82.8 for violence and 30.3 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Above-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 47% for Saint-Claude (61% violent, 32% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 45 in Saint-Claude. 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-Claude’s A− 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Saint-Claude, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (50.5); the low point came in 2024, at 41. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Claude | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 41 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 50.5 | 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-Claude, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Saint-Claude, type by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 23.7 | 0.7 | 49% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6.7 | 0.2 | 79% |
| Breaking and entering | 49 | 1.5 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 42.3 | 1.3 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8 | 0.2 | 21% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 74.3 | 2.3 | 44% |
| Mischief | 55.7 | 1.7 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 0.2 | 74% |
| Administration of justice violations | 54.3 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Drug violations | 20 | 0.6 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 40 | 1.2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 18.3 | 0.6 | 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.
The police area Saint-Claude is part of, 33,400 residents, recorded about 350 violent incidents a year (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 370 a year and other violations 160 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Claude
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Claude | 1,167 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Val-Joli | 1,787 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Windsor | 5,368 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Georges-de-Windsor | 1,034 | 72.6 | 127.5 | C+ |
| Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton | 2,650 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Stoke | 3,272 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Cleveland | 1,624 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
5 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 whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Claude among them.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- How serious, not how safe. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Claude
Is Saint-Claude safe?
Saint-Claude scores 45 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 10.5 violent incidents and 11.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Claude?
Police record assault most, 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (3.8) and theft under $5,000 (2.3).
Is crime going up in Saint-Claude?
It went down 14% between 2023 and 2025, from 50.5 to 43.6.
How much of Saint-Claude’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 47%: 61% for violent crime and 32% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Claude 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).