Photo: Nicogag · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Saint-Cyprien than in 72% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 48.8 to 44.6. Split in two, the index gives 72.4 for violence and 39 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). The Safety Grade comes out at B+, drawn from crime the police covering Saint-Cyprien reported through 2023 to 2025. Violence and property crime split as 10.7 violent incidents and 14.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Rivière-du-Loup MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Cyprien
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 56% of Saint-Cyprien’s crime, weighted by seriousness (70% of violent crime, 45% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Cyprien scores 48.3. Towns its size ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Saint-Cyprien’s two halves part ways: 72.4 for violence (typical 86.4) and 39 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
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-Cyprien’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.
Saint-Cyprien’s crime by kind
Assault and theft under $5,000 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 | 16.7 | 0.5 | 52% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6.3 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 4 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 9.3 | 0.3 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 36.3 | 1 | 48% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9 | 0.2 | 63% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16 | 0.4 | 50% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 0.2 | 22% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 185 | 5.1 | 57% |
| Mischief | 96 | 2.6 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 12 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Administration of justice violations | 87 | 2.4 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19.3 | 0.5 | 74% |
| Drug violations | 48.3 | 1.3 | 73% |
| Impaired driving | 94.7 | 2.6 | 85% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 101.7 | 2.8 | 11% |
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-Cyprien, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 51.4 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 44.6 in 2025. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Cyprien | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 51.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 48.8 | 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-Cyprien, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 390 violent incidents a year in the 36,400-resident police area around Saint-Cyprien, 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 520 property crimes, plus 390 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Cyprien
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Cyprien | 1,090 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Saint-Jean-de-Dieu | 1,697 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
| Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup | 1,471 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
Where a neighbour shares its police, it shares the figure too, and isn’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Cyprien alone.
- Reading the number. 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-Cyprien
Is Saint-Cyprien safe?
With 10.7 violent incidents and 14.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Saint-Cyprien comes to 48.3 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Cyprien?
Criminal Code traffic offences is the most common, at 5.9 per 1,000 residents a year, then theft under $5,000 (5.1) and assault (4.8).
Is crime going up in Saint-Cyprien?
Down 9%: 48.8 in 2023, 44.6 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Cyprien’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 56%: 70% for violent crime and 45% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Cyprien 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).