Photo: Garbanzo972 · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Donat sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Typical years here bring 10.8 violent incidents plus 14.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.9 plus 31.2 in the typical town its size. Its violent half comes to 87.6 and its non-violent half to 46, where the norm is 85.7 and 62.8. Taking everything together, Saint-Donat scores B (#260 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. In 2023 the index stood at 61.4; it fell to 53.7 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Matawinie MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Donat
Visitors count, residents divide
With 46% of its homes not lived in all year, Saint-Donat counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Saint-Donat stands 15th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 87.6 on Saint-Donat’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 46 against 62.8. By type ↓
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 43% of crime in Saint-Donat ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 59% of violent crime and 32% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Saint-Donat’s B 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: #260 of 503 in Quebec and #863 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.
Which crimes make up Saint-Donat’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Donat runs highest on sexual assault (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.9) and motor vehicle theft (3 per 1,000 against 2.6). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 44.3 | 0.8 | 49% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 15.3 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.09 | 75% |
| Robbery | 6.3 | 0.1 | 75% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.09 | 80% |
| Other violent violations | 16 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Breaking and entering | 131.3 | 2.3 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 46 | 0.8 | 65% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 174 | 3 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 41.3 | 0.7 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 144.7 | 2.5 | 23% |
| Mischief | 96.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 19.3 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 92 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16.7 | 0.3 | 60% |
| Drug violations | 48 | 0.8 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 123 | 2.1 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 75 | 1.3 | 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 to 10,000 people.
Saint-Donat, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 61.4, against a low of 53.7 in 2025. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Donat | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53.7 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 57.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 61.4 | 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-Donat, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
By its index, Saint-Donat stands 15th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northern Bruce Peninsula Ontario | 5,018 | 29.3 | 46.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Morin-Heights Quebec | 5,086 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| 11 | Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac Quebec | 5,194 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| 12 | Carstairs Alberta | 5,248 | 54.8 | 78.3 | B |
| 13 | Warwick Quebec | 4,939 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| 14 | Hastings Highlands Ontario | 4,957 | 55.2 | 59.6 | B |
| 15 | Saint-Donat Quebec | 5,087 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 16 | Grand Bay-Westfield New Brunswick | 5,202 | 58.8 | 54.7 | B− |
| 17 | Altona Manitoba | 4,989 | 59.1 | 44 | B− |
| 18 | Didsbury Alberta | 5,185 | 59.9 | 69.6 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 23 | Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover Quebec | 5,242 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| 24 | Saint-Germain-de-Grantham Quebec | 5,054 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Nipawin Saskatchewan | 5,033 | 182.3 | 163.9 | 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-Donat in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 620 violent incidents a year across the police area of 58,800 residents that includes Saint-Donat, 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 840 property crimes, plus 420 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-Donat
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Donat | 5,087 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci (10 km) | 1,154 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Lac-Supérieur (24 km) | 2,122 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides (24 km) | 1,651 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| Entrelacs (28 km) | 1,124 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Faustin--Lac-Carré (29 km) | 4,009 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
The places around Saint-Donat all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Lac-Supérieur (23.5 km away), scores 48.8 against 57.5. Its police also cover 2 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Saint-Donat has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 10–29 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- What the index measures. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Donat alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Saint-Donat
Is Saint-Donat safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 57.5 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people: that is where Saint-Donat stands, with 10.8 violent and 14.7 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Donat?
Top of the list is assault (5.4 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 4, and motor vehicle theft, at 3, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Donat?
It went down 13% between 2023 and 2025, from 61.4 to 53.7.
How much of Saint-Donat’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 43%: 59% for violent crime and 32% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Donat 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).