Photo: Challwa · CC BY-SA 4.0For recorded crime, Saint-Guillaume sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Both towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Saint-Guillaume’s Safety Grade, C+, rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. For every 1,000 residents, 18.0 violent incidents and 19.5 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 puts its Crime Severity Index at 72.2 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2.
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 published for the Drummond MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Guillaume
The violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 124.7 on Saint-Guillaume’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 51.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 49% of crime in Saint-Guillaume ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 63% of violent crime and 35% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Over the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Guillaume, 72.2. 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 grade: C+ for Saint-Guillaume
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.
Which crimes make up Saint-Guillaume’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Guillaume runs highest on assault (8.9 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 156.7 | 1.4 | 60% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 36.7 | 0.3 | 98% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 33.3 | 0.3 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 21 | 0.2 | 87% |
| Other violent violations | 58 | 0.5 | 72% |
| Breaking and entering | 255.7 | 2.2 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 44 | 0.4 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 221 | 1.9 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 47.7 | 0.4 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 609.3 | 5.3 | 36% |
| Mischief | 364 | 3.2 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 29.3 | 0.3 | 71% |
| Administration of justice violations | 377.3 | 3.3 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 59 | 0.5 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 146.7 | 1.3 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 261.3 | 2.3 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 260.7 | 2.3 | 12% |
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.
Saint-Guillaume’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (74.7); the low point came in 2024, at 69.4. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Guillaume | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 69.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 74.7 | 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-Guillaume, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 2,050 violent incidents a year across the police area of 115,700 residents that includes Saint-Guillaume, 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 2,220 property crimes, plus 1,200 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Guillaume
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Guillaume | 1,489 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Bonaventure | 1,086 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Hugues | 1,414 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Eugène | 1,180 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Germain-de-Grantham | 5,054 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham | 1,373 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot | 1,887 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Saint-Guillaume. Closest is Saint-Hugues, 12.7 km away, at 49.7 to 72.2 here. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 4 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Guillaume shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Saint-Guillaume
Is Saint-Guillaume safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint-Guillaume at 72.2 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 18 and property crimes at 19.5 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Guillaume?
Most often it is assault: 8.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 5.5 and theft under $5,000 at 5.3.
Is crime going up in Saint-Guillaume?
Hardly at all, from 74.7 in 2023 to 72.3 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Guillaume’s crime do police solve?
About 49% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 63% of violent and 35% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Guillaume 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).