Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Félix-d'Otis records less crime per resident than seven in ten Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Saint-Félix-d'Otis reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on B+ for safety. Add to that, recorded violent incidents ran at 10.2 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 11.4, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Of the two halves, violence comes to 80 and other offences to 36.6, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8.
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. Shared with the rest of the Fjord-du-Saguenay MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Félix-d'Otis
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
With 33% of its homes not lived in all year, Saint-Félix-d'Otis counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 53% of crime in Saint-Félix-d'Otis ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 68% of violent crime and 40% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 80 on Saint-Félix-d'Otis’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 36.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 48.7 in Saint-Félix-d'Otis. 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.
The B+ for Saint-Félix-d'Otis, and how it is built
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.
Which crimes make up Saint-Félix-d'Otis’s figures
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 18.7 | 0.8 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 47 | 2.1 | 40% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 39.3 | 1.7 | 18% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.3 | 0.7 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 46.7 | 2 | 39% |
| Mischief | 32 | 1.4 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 8 | 0.4 | 66% |
| Administration of justice violations | 36 | 1.6 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.3 | 0.2 | 51% |
| Drug violations | 13 | 0.6 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 42.3 | 1.9 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 12 | 0.5 | 33% |
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.
About 230 violent incidents a year across the police area of 23,200 residents that includes Saint-Félix-d'Otis, 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.
Add about 260 property crimes and 130 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Saint-Félix-d'Otis’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 53.8; 2025 was the lightest, at 46.1. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Félix-d'Otis | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 53.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 46.1 | 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-Félix-d'Otis, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Félix-d'Otis
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Félix-d'Otis | 1,203 | 48.7 | 80 | B+ |
| Saint-Fulgence (28 km) | 2,202 | 48.7 | 80 | B+ |
| L'Anse-Saint-Jean (30 km) | 1,310 | 48.7 | 80 | B+ |
| Saguenay (36 km) | 151,972 | 53.3 | 87.4 | B+ |
| Saint-Honoré (43 km) | 6,984 | 48.7 | 80 | B+ |
3 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Saint-Félix-d'Otis has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 28–43 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- How serious, not how safe. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “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-Félix-d'Otis shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Saint-Félix-d'Otis
Is Saint-Félix-d'Otis safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint-Félix-d'Otis at 48.7 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 10.2 and property crimes at 11.4 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Félix-d'Otis?
Assault is the most common, at 4.7 per 1,000 residents a year, then Criminal Code traffic offences (2.8) and fraud (2.6).
Is crime going up in Saint-Félix-d'Otis?
The index stayed close to where it was, 46.1 in 2023 and 46.1 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Félix-d'Otis’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 53% of crime (68% of violent crime, 40% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Félix-d'Otis 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).