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Photo: Unknown Unknown · Public domainSaint-Georges records less crime per resident than 73% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 81.3 and its non-violent half to 34.7, where the norm is 89.4 and 56. Scored on crime the police covering Saint-Georges reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on B+ for safety: #135 of 503 in Quebec. What’s more, typical years here bring 10.9 violent incidents plus 10.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 30.5 in the typical town its size. Each of the two towns on its borders with figures records 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Beauce-Sartigan MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Georges
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 64% for Saint-Georges (82% violent, 48% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Saint-Georges places 13th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Easing since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Saint-Georges moved from 50.7 to 42, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 to 60. Year by year ↓
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Saint-Georges records 1.5 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
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-Georges’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.
Its place: #135 of 503 in Quebec and #471 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Crime in Saint-Georges, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Georges runs highest on drug offences (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.8). Motor vehicle theft and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 28.3 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 14.3 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 7.3 | 0.1 | 92% |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 20.7 | 0.4 | 77% |
| Breaking and entering | 62.3 | 1.1 | 52% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.3 | 0.10 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 30.7 | 0.6 | 34% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.3 | 0.2 | 33% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 124.7 | 2.3 | 46% |
| Mischief | 97.3 | 1.8 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 17.3 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Administration of justice violations | 142 | 2.6 | 97% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15.7 | 0.3 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 83.7 | 1.5 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 107.7 | 2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 95.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
From 2023 to 2025, Saint-Georges’s index dropped 17%
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (50.7); the low point came in 2025, at 42. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Georges | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | 60 |
| 2024 | 50.6 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 50.7 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-Georges, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Saint-Georges comes 13th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LaSalle Ontario | 36,452 | 22.9 | 17.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Chambly Quebec | 31,870 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 4 | Sainte-Julie Quebec | 30,981 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Saint-Constant Quebec | 32,124 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 8 | Magog Quebec | 30,764 | 42 | 55.3 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Chestermere Alberta | 31,671 | 43.2 | 43.5 | A− |
| 11 | Port Moody British Columbia | 38,285 | 43.5 | 43.4 | A− |
| 12 | Orangeville Ontario | 33,070 | 43.5 | 50.6 | A− |
| 13 | Saint-Georges Quebec | 33,881 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| 14 | Alma Quebec | 30,659 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| 15 | Wasaga Beach Ontario | 28,736 | 50 | 61.1 | B+ |
| 16 | King Ontario | 29,077 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Whitehorse Yukon | 34,129 | 171.7 | 196.7 | D |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Saint-Georges in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 600 violent incidents a year across the police area of 55,400 residents that includes Saint-Georges, 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 580 property crimes and 500 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-Georges
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Georges | 33,881 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Pins | 1,935 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Benoît-Labre | 1,655 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-René | 1,035 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Côme--Linière | 3,435 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Beauceville | 6,228 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Saint-Benjamin | 1,267 | 30.8 | 48.9 | A+ |
Saint-Georges has the highest index of the places around it. Just 14.3 km away, Beauceville comes to 44, against 47.7. The table leaves out 4 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
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Georges shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Saint-Georges
Is Saint-Georges safe?
Against a typical 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, Saint-Georges’s Crime Severity Index stands at 47.7 for 2023–2025. Its police record 10.9 violent incidents and 10.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Georges?
Police record assault most, 5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (4.2) and Criminal Code traffic offences (4.1).
Is crime going up in Saint-Georges?
No: the index fell 17%, from 50.7 in 2023 to 42 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Georges’s crime do police solve?
64%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 33%. Violent crime is cleared at 82% and non-violent crime at 48%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Georges 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).