Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Frédéric has less crime per resident than four in five Canadian towns
Per 1,000 residents a year, 9.5 violent incidents and 10.6 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, a Safety Grade of A− follows from crime the police covering Saint-Frédéric reported over the years 2023 to 2025. Split in two, the index gives 75.8 for violence and 31.6 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Of the 4 towns on its borders with figures, 3 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Robert-Cliche MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Frédéric
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 62% of crime in Saint-Frédéric ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 75% of violent crime and 48% 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 75.8 on Saint-Frédéric’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 31.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Lighter than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Saint-Frédéric stood at 49.8, by 2025 at 40.7. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Under the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Frédéric scores 44. 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-Frédéric’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.
In Saint-Frédéric, down 18% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
From 49.8 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 40.7 in 2025. Set beside it, 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-Frédéric | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 41.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 49.8 | 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-Frédéric, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
20,000 residents, about 190 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Frédéric 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.
And about 210 property crimes, plus 160 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Which crimes make up Saint-Frédéric’s figures
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 10.3 | 0.5 | 55% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7 | 0.4 | 76% |
| Breaking and entering | 25.3 | 1.3 | 40% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13.7 | 0.7 | 36% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5.3 | 0.3 | 43% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 37.7 | 1.9 | 42% |
| Mischief | 42.3 | 2.1 | 39% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 82% |
| Administration of justice violations | 56.7 | 2.9 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 15.7 | 0.8 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 48.3 | 2.4 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 19.3 | 1 | 38% |
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-Frédéric
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Frédéric | 1,172 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Tring-Jonction | 1,626 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce | 5,339 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Vallée-Jonction | 2,042 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| Saint-Elzéar | 2,842 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| East Broughton | 2,311 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| Saints-Anges | 1,364 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
Saint-Frédéric sits above 3 of the 4 neighbours with figures of their own. The nearest of them, Vallée-Jonction (8.4 km away), scores 37.7 against 44. 2 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Frédéric among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
Questions about safety in Saint-Frédéric
Is Saint-Frédéric safe?
Saint-Frédéric measures 44 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 9.5 violent incidents and 10.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Frédéric?
The three biggest groups are fraud at 4.1, Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.8 and assault at 3.7, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Frédéric?
The reverse: 49.8 in 2023 came down to 40.7 by 2025, 18% lower.
How much of Saint-Frédéric’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 62%: 75% for violent crime and 48% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Frédéric 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).