Photo: Sacré Marmotte · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Saint-Fabien than in 80% of Canadian towns
The index rose from 39.1 in 2023 to 44.8 in 2025. By contrast, on crime the police covering Saint-Fabien reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A− for safety. Violence and property crime split as 11.0 violent incidents and 10.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 75.8 and 31.6.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Rimouski-Neigette MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Fabien
Heavier on violence
Saint-Fabien scores 75.8 for violence and 31.6 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 48% for Saint-Fabien (61% violent, 37% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Lighter than Quebec’s middle
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 44 in Saint-Fabien. 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-Fabien’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.
Crime in Saint-Fabien, type by type
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 | 40.7 | 0.7 | 43% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 23.3 | 0.4 | 82% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 6.3 | 0.1 | 90% |
| Other violent violations | 33 | 0.6 | 81% |
| Breaking and entering | 63.3 | 1.1 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.3 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 18 | 0.3 | 28% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 0.1 | 48% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 184 | 3.1 | 39% |
| Mischief | 128.7 | 2.2 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 12 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 182.3 | 3.1 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19.7 | 0.3 | 70% |
| Drug violations | 57.7 | 1 | 59% |
| Impaired driving | 75.7 | 1.3 | 92% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 158 | 2.7 | 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-Fabien, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 48, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2023, came in at 39.1. 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-Fabien | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.8 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 48 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 39.1 | 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-Fabien, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 650 violent incidents a year in the 60,300-resident police area around Saint-Fabien, 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 650 property crimes, plus 540 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-Fabien
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Fabien | 1,866 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Rimouski (29 km) | 51,756 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Trois-Pistoles (30 km) | 3,123 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
| Saint-Narcisse-de-Rimouski (30 km) | 1,190 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Notre-Dame-des-Neiges (32 km) | 1,146 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
| Saint-Jean-de-Dieu (35 km) | 1,697 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
The places around Saint-Fabien all score higher on the index. 2 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 29–35 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Saint-Fabien.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Fabien alone.
Questions about safety in Saint-Fabien
Is Saint-Fabien safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Saint-Fabien scores 44 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 11 violent and 10.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Fabien?
Police record assault most, 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of Criminal Code traffic offences (4.2) and fraud (3.8).
Is crime going up in Saint-Fabien?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 14%, to 44.8 from 39.1.
How much of Saint-Fabien’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 61% of violent crime and 37% of everything else, 48% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Fabien 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).