Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Saint-Gervais runs lower than in 85% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 73 and 26.8. Measured on crime the police covering Saint-Gervais reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of A. Police counts work out at 8.5 violent incidents and 9.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Bellechasse MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Gervais
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 55% of crime in Saint-Gervais ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 72% of violent crime and 39% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 73 on Saint-Gervais’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 26.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 39.7 in Saint-Gervais. Towns its size ↓
Up since 2023
From 34.9 in 2023 to 42.3 in 2025: that is Saint-Gervais’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
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-Gervais’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.
From 2023 to 2025, Saint-Gervais’s index climbed 21%
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 42.3; the lightest was 2023, at 34.9. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Gervais | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 42 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 34.9 | 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-Gervais, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Saint-Gervais’s figures
Assault and fraud 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 | 19 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 10.3 | 0.3 | 58% |
| Breaking and entering | 57.3 | 1.5 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.1 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 39.3 | 1 | 39% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 0.2 | 34% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 56.7 | 1.4 | 32% |
| Mischief | 58.3 | 1.5 | 32% |
| Weapons violations | 9.7 | 0.2 | 69% |
| Administration of justice violations | 47 | 1.2 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12 | 0.3 | 61% |
| Drug violations | 20.3 | 0.5 | 92% |
| Impaired driving | 68.7 | 1.7 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 28 | 0.7 | 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.
39,600 residents, about 340 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Gervais 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.
Add about 350 property crimes and 200 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-Gervais
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Gervais | 2,235 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse | 2,739 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse | 1,330 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Anselme | 4,534 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Sainte-Claire | 3,724 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Raphaël | 2,488 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Henri | 6,048 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
6 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
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Gervais alone.
- Reading the number. 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.
- Solved cases. 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.
Questions about safety in Saint-Gervais
Is Saint-Gervais safe?
The short answer is an index of 39.7 for Saint-Gervais (2023–2025), built from 8.5 violent incidents and 9 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Gervais?
Police record assault most, 4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (3) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.8).
Is crime going up in Saint-Gervais?
It has: 34.9 in 2023 became 42.3 by 2025, a rise of 21%.
How much of Saint-Gervais’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 55%: 72% for violent crime and 39% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Gervais 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).