Photo: Dany Caron · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Fulgence sees less crime per resident than seven in ten Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 80 and 36.6. On crime the police covering Saint-Fulgence reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B+ for safety. What’s more, for every 1,000 residents, 10.2 violent incidents and 11.4 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2.
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. Shared with the rest of the Fjord-du-Saguenay MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Fulgence
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Fulgence’s police clear 53%, 68% of violent crime and 40% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Saint-Fulgence’s index splits into violent crime, 80 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 36.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Fulgence, 48.7. 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-Fulgence, 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.
What police record in Saint-Fulgence, by type
Assault and fraud sit 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.
The police area Saint-Fulgence is part of, 23,200 residents, recorded about 230 violent incidents a year (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 260 property crimes, plus 130 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
From 2023 to 2025, Saint-Fulgence’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 53.8, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 46.1. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Fulgence | 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-Fulgence, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Fulgence
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Fulgence | 2,202 | 48.7 | 80 | B+ |
| Saguenay | 151,972 | 53.3 | 87.4 | B+ |
| Saint-Honoré | 6,984 | 48.7 | 80 | B+ |
Where a neighbour shares its police, it shares the figure too, and isn’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- The clearance rate. 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.
- Severity, weighed. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Fulgence alone.
Questions about safety in Saint-Fulgence
Is Saint-Fulgence safe?
Police-reported crime in Saint-Fulgence scores 48.7 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 10.2 violent incidents and 11.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Fulgence?
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-Fulgence?
Barely: 46.1 in 2023, 46.1 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Fulgence’s crime do police solve?
About 53% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 68% of violent and 40% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Fulgence 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).