Photo: Simon Villeneuve · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime in Saint-Cuthbert sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 58, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. The yearly rates were 11.9 violent incidents and 14.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Taking everything together, Saint-Cuthbert scores B: close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 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 D'Autray MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Cuthbert
A high clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 53% of crime in Saint-Cuthbert ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 74% of violent crime and 36% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 90.3 on Saint-Cuthbert’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 45.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Near the Quebec middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Cuthbert scores 58. 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-Cuthbert’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.
Which crimes make up Saint-Cuthbert’s figures
Assault and fraud sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 41 | 0.9 | 50% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 13 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.3 | 0.1 | 94% |
| Other violent violations | 12 | 0.3 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 111 | 2.4 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 21.7 | 0.5 | 72% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 114.3 | 2.4 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 26.7 | 0.6 | 20% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 115.3 | 2.5 | 34% |
| Mischief | 89 | 1.9 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 11 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Administration of justice violations | 130.7 | 2.8 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14.3 | 0.3 | 70% |
| Drug violations | 44.7 | 1 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 129.7 | 2.8 | 89% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 67.3 | 1.4 | 21% |
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.
47,600 residents, about 560 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Cuthbert 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.
And about 690 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.
From 2023 to 2025, Saint-Cuthbert’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (65.8) and 2023 the trough (53.9). Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Cuthbert | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 65.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 53.9 | 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-Cuthbert, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Cuthbert
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Cuthbert | 1,865 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Saint-Norbert | 1,143 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Saint-Barthélemy | 2,115 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier | 2,298 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Berthierville | 4,591 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Sainte-Élisabeth | 1,473 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois | 7,670 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
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 clearance rate. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- 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. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Cuthbert shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
Questions about safety in Saint-Cuthbert
Is Saint-Cuthbert safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint-Cuthbert at 58 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 11.9 and property crimes at 14.8 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Cuthbert?
Top of the list is assault (5.5 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 4.8, and fraud, at 4.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Cuthbert?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 53.9 to 54.4.
How much of Saint-Cuthbert’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 53% of crime (74% of violent crime, 36% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Cuthbert 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).