Photo: Richard Mc Neil · CC BY 3.0Saint-Eugène is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Behind the grade sit 18.0 violent incidents and 19.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. The index held steady between 2023 (74.7) and 2025 (72.3). Overall, Saint-Eugène grades C+ for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, all 3 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident.
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 Drummond MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Eugène
Violence weighs more than the rest
Saint-Eugène’s index splits into violent crime, 124.7 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 51.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Eugène’s police clear 49%, 63% of violent crime and 35% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Saint-Eugène’s index of 72.2 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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-Eugène’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.
What police record in Saint-Eugène, by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Eugène runs highest on assault (8.9 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 156.7 | 1.4 | 60% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 36.7 | 0.3 | 98% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 33.3 | 0.3 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 21 | 0.2 | 87% |
| Other violent violations | 58 | 0.5 | 72% |
| Breaking and entering | 255.7 | 2.2 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 44 | 0.4 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 221 | 1.9 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 47.7 | 0.4 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 609.3 | 5.3 | 36% |
| Mischief | 364 | 3.2 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 29.3 | 0.3 | 71% |
| Administration of justice violations | 377.3 | 3.3 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 59 | 0.5 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 146.7 | 1.3 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 261.3 | 2.3 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 260.7 | 2.3 | 12% |
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-Eugène, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 74.7; the lightest was 2024, at 69.4. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Eugène | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 69.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 74.7 | 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-Eugène, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Saint-Eugène is part of, 115,700 residents, recorded about 2,050 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.
And about 2,220 property crimes, plus 1,200 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-Eugène
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Eugène | 1,180 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot | 1,887 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Germain-de-Grantham | 5,054 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Guillaume | 1,489 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Théodore-d'Acton | 1,650 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
| Wickham | 2,745 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Hugues | 1,414 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Saint-Eugène. Closest is Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot, 7.7 km away, at 49.7 to 72.2 here. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 3 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Eugène shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- What clearance means. 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.
Questions about safety in Saint-Eugène
Is Saint-Eugène safe?
Police-reported crime in Saint-Eugène scores 72.2 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 18 violent incidents and 19.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Eugène?
Most often it is assault: 8.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 5.5 and theft under $5,000 at 5.3.
Is crime going up in Saint-Eugène?
The index stayed close to where it was, 74.7 in 2023 and 72.3 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Eugène’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 49% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 63% of violent and 35% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Eugène 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).