Photo: Alain.boucher86 · Public domainSaint-Ferdinand records less crime per resident than 60% of Canadian towns
On crime the police covering Saint-Ferdinand reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B for safety. The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 55.6 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Recorded violent incidents ran at 15.0 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 16.4, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 for the Érable MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Ferdinand
Police clear more here
Police cleared 55% of Saint-Ferdinand’s crime, weighted by seriousness (73% of violent crime, 42% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Down since 2023
From 60.7 in 2023 to 50.1 in 2025: that is Saint-Ferdinand’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 55.6 in Saint-Ferdinand. 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-Ferdinand’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.
Saint-Ferdinand’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Ferdinand runs highest on assault (7.8 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief 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 | 15 | 0.6 | 71% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 61.7 | 2.5 | 34% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.3 | 54% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 41.3 | 1.7 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11 | 0.4 | 18% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 99.7 | 4.1 | 53% |
| Mischief | 63.7 | 2.6 | 39% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 42 | 1.7 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.3 | 0.3 | 69% |
| Drug violations | 18.7 | 0.8 | 57% |
| Impaired driving | 35 | 1.4 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 36 | 1.5 | 17% |
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.
Year by year in Saint-Ferdinand: down 17%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 60.7, and its lowest 2025, at 50.1. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Ferdinand | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 55.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 60.7 | 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-Ferdinand, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
24,500 residents, about 370 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Ferdinand belongs to, 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 400 a year and other violations 160 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Ferdinand
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Ferdinand | 2,082 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| Plessisville | 2,718 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska | 1,291 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
One neighbour reports through the same police, so its figure is this one and it isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Ferdinand shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Ferdinand
Is Saint-Ferdinand safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint-Ferdinand at 55.6 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 15 and property crimes at 16.4 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Ferdinand?
The three biggest groups are assault at 7.8, fraud at 4.4 and theft under $5,000 at 4.1, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Ferdinand?
Down 17%: 60.7 in 2023, 50.1 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Ferdinand’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 55% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 73% of violent crime and 42% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Ferdinand and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).