Photo: Lamusicographe · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce runs lower than in 73% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on B+ for safety: #135 of 503 in Quebec. What’s more, the typical town in Quebec scores 56.1 on the same index. In a usual year, 10.9 violent incidents and 10.6 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.9 and 31.2. Against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 81.3 and 34.7.
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 Beauce-Sartigan MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce
Police clear more here
Police cleared 64% of Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce’s crime, weighted by seriousness (82% of violent crime, 48% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce’s two halves part ways: 81.3 for violence (typical 85.7) and 34.7 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce stands 15th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Lighter than in 2023
From 50.7 in 2023 to 42 in 2025: that is Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce’s index, against 74.3 and 64.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce: B+ for safety, and why
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: #135 of 503 in Quebec and #471 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.
Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce’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 | 1.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 28.3 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 14.3 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 7.3 | 0.1 | 92% |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 20.7 | 0.4 | 77% |
| Breaking and entering | 62.3 | 1.1 | 52% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.3 | 0.10 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 30.7 | 0.6 | 34% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.3 | 0.2 | 33% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 124.7 | 2.3 | 46% |
| Mischief | 97.3 | 1.8 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 17.3 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Administration of justice violations | 142 | 2.6 | 97% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15.7 | 0.3 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 83.7 | 1.5 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 107.7 | 2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 95.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
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.
Year by year in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce: down 17%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 50.7 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 42. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 50.6 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 50.7 | 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-Éphrem-de-Beauce, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
The police area Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce is part of, 55,400 residents, recorded about 600 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 580 a year and other violations 500 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce is 15th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonfield Ontario | 2,597 | 24.3 | 39.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Fossambault-sur-le-Lac Quebec | 2,505 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Saint-Polycarpe Quebec | 2,549 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 8 | Hatley Quebec | 2,512 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Saint-Mathieu Quebec | 2,642 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska Quebec | 2,509 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| 13 | Sainte-Croix Quebec | 2,612 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| 14 | Waterville Quebec | 2,643 | 44.5 | 81.6 | A− |
| 15 | Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce Quebec | 2,575 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| 16 | Hébertville Quebec | 2,588 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| 17 | Rosetown Saskatchewan | 2,600 | 54.6 | 46.6 | B |
| 18 | Saint-Damien Quebec | 2,569 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | High Prairie Alberta | 2,607 | 334.5 | 521.9 | 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-Éphrem-de-Beauce in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce | 2,575 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| La Guadeloupe | 1,927 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Victor | 2,344 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Adstock | 3,203 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Benoît-Labre | 1,655 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley | 1,610 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
Nearby, 1 of 2 places with their own figures have a lower index than Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce. Saint-Victor, 10.3 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 44 to 47.7. The comparison skips 3 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce
Is Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce comes to 47.7. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 10.9 violent incidents and 10.6 property crimes. For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the typical index is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce?
Assault is the most common, at 5 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (4.2) and Criminal Code traffic offences (4.1).
Is crime going up in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce?
It went down 17% between 2023 and 2025, from 50.7 to 42.
How much of Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 64% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 82% of violent and 48% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce 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).