Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Per resident, Saint-Gédéon records less crime than 69% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 81.8 and 37.1. Counting crime the police covering Saint-Gédéon reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B+ for safety. Year on year, 12.1 violent incidents and 11.6 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Lac-Saint-Jean-Est MRC).
What stands out about safety in Saint-Gédéon
Above-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 59% for Saint-Gédéon (73% violent, 46% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Saint-Gédéon scores 81.8 for violence and 37.1 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Down since 2023
In 2023 the index in Saint-Gédéon stood at 51.8, by 2025 at 43.2. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Saint-Gédéon’s index of 49.6 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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-Gédéon, 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.
Crime in Saint-Gédéon, type by type
Fraud 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 | 42.7 | 0.8 | 56% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 15 | 0.3 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 7.3 | 0.1 | 92% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 6 | 0.1 | 95% |
| Other violent violations | 9.7 | 0.2 | 62% |
| Breaking and entering | 109.3 | 2 | 40% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11.7 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 60.7 | 1.1 | 36% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.7 | 0.3 | 13% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 170.7 | 3.2 | 34% |
| Mischief | 92 | 1.7 | 31% |
| Weapons violations | 10.3 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 135.7 | 2.5 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 22.7 | 0.4 | 85% |
| Drug violations | 72.3 | 1.3 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 94 | 1.8 | 92% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 64.7 | 1.2 | 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.
In Saint-Gédéon, down 17% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 53.7 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 43.2 in 2025. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Gédéon | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 53.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 51.8 | 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-Gédéon, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 650 violent incidents a year in the 53,800-resident police area around Saint-Gédéon, 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 620 property crimes and 430 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Gédéon
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Gédéon | 2,349 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Bruno | 2,935 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Hébertville-Station | 1,298 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Alma | 30,659 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix | 4,230 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Hébertville | 2,588 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Nazaire | 2,167 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
The table leaves out 6 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Gédéon shares it with its neighbours.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- What the index measures. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Gédéon
Is Saint-Gédéon safe?
Saint-Gédéon measures 49.6 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 12.1 violent incidents and 11.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Gédéon?
Top of the list is assault (5.5 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 3.4, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Gédéon?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 17%, to 43.2 from 51.8.
How much of Saint-Gédéon’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 59% of crime (73% of violent crime, 46% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Gédéon 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).