Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Saint-Colomban runs lower than in 87% of Canadian towns
From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Saint-Colomban reported put it at A for safety: #46 of 503 in Quebec. Violence accounts for an index of 60.1 and other offences for 29.5, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56. None of the 5 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Annual rates stand at 8.9 violent incidents and 10.5 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size.
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 Rivière-du-Nord MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Colomban
Lower than most of Quebec
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Colomban, 38. Towns its size ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Saint-Colomban comes 12th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 48% of Saint-Colomban’s crime, weighted by seriousness (69% of violent crime, 31% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The A for Saint-Colomban, and how it is built
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: #46 of 503 in Quebec and #262 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Saint-Colomban’s crime by kind
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 22.3 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.1 | 82% |
| Other violent violations | 12 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Breaking and entering | 57.7 | 1.3 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11.7 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 73.3 | 1.6 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 26.7 | 0.6 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 112 | 2.5 | 25% |
| Mischief | 48.3 | 1.1 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 7.3 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 84 | 1.8 | 93% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 0.3 | 80% |
| Drug violations | 15 | 0.3 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 60.7 | 1.3 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 41.3 | 0.9 | 31% |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Around 410 violent incidents a year in the 46,300-resident police area around Saint-Colomban, 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 480 a year and other violations 250 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Saint-Colomban comes 12th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quispamsis New Brunswick | 20,240 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Deux-Montagnes Quebec | 18,516 | 30.8 | 56.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Mont-Saint-Hilaire Quebec | 19,447 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 10 | Kemptville Ontario | 19,733 | 37.9 | 52.9 | A |
| 11 | Sainte-Sophie Quebec | 19,467 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| 12 | Saint-Colomban Quebec | 19,080 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| 13 | Sainte-Catherine Quebec | 17,782 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 14 | Esquimalt British Columbia | 19,512 | 43 | 65.7 | A− |
| 15 | Bracebridge Ontario | 18,676 | 46.7 | 69.2 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Rivière-du-Loup Quebec | 20,650 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 23 | L'Ancienne-Lorette Quebec | 17,876 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Westmount Quebec | 20,377 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Cold Lake Alberta | 17,798 | 204.1 | 204.7 | 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-Colomban in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Year by year in Saint-Colomban: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (40.3) and 2023 the trough (36.4). In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Colomban | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.4 | 60 |
| 2024 | 40.3 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 36.4 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-Colomban, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Saint-Colomban
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Colomban | 19,080 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| Saint-Jérôme | 85,160 | 77.6 | 129.6 | C+ |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs | 4,080 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| Gore | 2,756 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| Prévost | 14,275 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| Mille-Isles | 1,886 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| Mirabel | 68,471 | 50.1 | 57.3 | B+ |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Saint-Colomban. One neighbour reports through the same police, so its figure is this one and it isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Colomban alone.
- What 100 means. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Saint-Colomban
Is Saint-Colomban safe?
Its police recorded 8.9 violent incidents and 10.5 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Saint-Colomban a Crime Severity Index of 38. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Colomban?
Police record assault most, 4.3 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (3) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.7).
Is crime going up in Saint-Colomban?
Not much: the index went from 36.4 in 2023 to 37.4 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Colomban’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 48% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 69% of violent crime and 31% of the rest, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Colomban and everywhere else it polices.
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).