Photo: Sohny Desrosiers-Perron · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Hilarion has less crime per resident than 77% of Canadian towns
Violence and property crime split as 11.7 violent incidents and 10.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Add to that, its letter for safety is A−, worked out from crime the police covering Saint-Hilarion reported over 2023 to 2025. Split in two, the index gives 79.1 for violence and 31.7 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
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 behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Charlevoix MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Hilarion
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 68% of Saint-Hilarion’s crime, weighted by seriousness (85% of violent crime, 51% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Less severe than in 2023
From 55.9 in 2023 to 40.3 in 2025: that is Saint-Hilarion’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Saint-Hilarion’s two halves part ways: 79.1 for violence (typical 86.4) and 31.7 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Hilarion scores 45. 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.
Saint-Hilarion: A− for safety, and why
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.
Year by year in Saint-Hilarion: down 28%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 55.9, and 2024 the lightest at 38.7. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Hilarion | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 38.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.9 | 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-Hilarion, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Saint-Hilarion is part of, 14,300 residents, recorded about 170 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.
Property crime adds about 150 a year and other violations 120 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Saint-Hilarion’s crime by kind
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7.3 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 15.3 | 1.1 | 52% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 5.7 | 0.4 | 65% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 37.7 | 2.7 | 47% |
| Mischief | 28.7 | 2 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 0.4 | 86% |
| Administration of justice violations | 29.3 | 2.1 | 93% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 22 | 1.6 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 45.3 | 3.2 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 10.3 | 0.7 | 39% |
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.
Crime in the places around Saint-Hilarion
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Hilarion | 1,221 | 45 | 79.1 | A− |
| Saint-Urbain | 1,431 | 45 | 79.1 | A− |
| Les Éboulements | 1,661 | 45 | 79.1 | A− |
| Baie-Saint-Paul | 7,760 | 45 | 79.1 | A− |
| Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs | 1,169 | 57.2 | 83.8 | B |
| L'Isle-aux-Coudres | 1,083 | 45 | 79.1 | A− |
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
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Hilarion alone.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Saint-Hilarion
Is Saint-Hilarion safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Saint-Hilarion comes to 45. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 11.7 violent incidents and 10.6 property crimes. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Hilarion?
Assault is the most common, at 4.7 per 1,000 residents a year, then Criminal Code traffic offences (4.3) and fraud (3.9).
Is crime going up in Saint-Hilarion?
No: the index fell 28%, from 55.9 in 2023 to 40.3 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Hilarion’s crime do police solve?
68%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 85% and non-violent crime at 51%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Hilarion 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).