Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Saint-Flavien runs lower than in 81% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 72.9 and 30.8. Its Safety Grade is A−, on crime the police covering Saint-Flavien reported from 2023 to 2025. Violence and property crime split as 10.3 violent incidents and 10.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 45.4 to 40.2.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Lotbinière MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Flavien
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 52% of crime in Saint-Flavien ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 63% of violent crime and 41% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 72.9 on Saint-Flavien’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 30.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Under the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Flavien scores 42.6. 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.
Inside Saint-Flavien’s A− for safety
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-Flavien, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (45.4); 2025 was the lightest, at 40.2. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Flavien | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 42 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 45.4 | 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-Flavien, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 380 violent incidents a year across the police area of 37,800 residents that includes Saint-Flavien, 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 380 property crimes and 190 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Which crimes make up Saint-Flavien’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 | 0.5 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 11 | 0.3 | 55% |
| Breaking and entering | 57 | 1.5 | 35% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8.3 | 0.2 | 81% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 56.3 | 1.5 | 28% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.3 | 0.3 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 57 | 1.5 | 32% |
| Mischief | 81.3 | 2.2 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 7.3 | 0.2 | 92% |
| Administration of justice violations | 47.7 | 1.3 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.7 | 0.2 | 69% |
| Drug violations | 26 | 0.7 | 76% |
| Impaired driving | 48 | 1.3 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 30 | 0.8 | 27% |
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.
Crime in the places around Saint-Flavien
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Flavien | 1,682 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| Laurier-Station | 2,838 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| Saint-Janvier-de-Joly | 1,204 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| Saint-Agapit | 4,817 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| Saint-Apollinaire | 9,218 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| Lyster | 1,679 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| Sainte-Croix | 2,612 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
Same police, same number: 5 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Flavien among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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-Flavien
Is Saint-Flavien safe?
Saint-Flavien measures 42.6 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 10.3 violent incidents and 10.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Flavien?
Police record assault most, 4.9 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (2.7) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.5).
Is crime going up in Saint-Flavien?
Down 11%: 45.4 in 2023, 40.2 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Flavien’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 52%: 63% for violent crime and 41% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Flavien 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).