Photo: Hadrianopolis · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Joachim records less crime per resident than 81% of Canadian towns
The local count comes to 10.3 violent incidents and 11.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 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-Joachim reported over 2023 to 2025. Split in two, the index gives 62.9 for violence and 35 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 40.3 to 38.2.
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: one figure for all of the Côte-de-Beaupré MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Joachim
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 57% of crime in Saint-Joachim ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 78% of violent crime and 44% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 42.7 in Saint-Joachim. 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: A− for Saint-Joachim
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.
Around 330 violent incidents a year in the 32,700-resident police area around Saint-Joachim, 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 380 a year and other violations 220 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Which crimes make up Saint-Joachim’s figures
Fraud and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 17 | 0.5 | 69% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6.3 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 10 | 0.3 | 70% |
| Breaking and entering | 53.7 | 1.7 | 38% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 36.3 | 1.1 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 13.3 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 80.3 | 2.5 | 41% |
| Mischief | 63 | 2 | 36% |
| Weapons violations | 8.7 | 0.3 | 95% |
| Administration of justice violations | 56.3 | 1.8 | 99% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9.3 | 0.3 | 72% |
| Drug violations | 29.7 | 0.9 | 82% |
| Impaired driving | 55 | 1.7 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 39.3 | 1.2 | 23% |
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-Joachim, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 49.8; 2025 was the lightest, at 38.2. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Joachim | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 49.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 40.3 | 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-Joachim, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Joachim
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Joachim | 1,425 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| Beaupré | 4,314 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré | 3,173 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges | 4,083 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| Saint-Tite-des-Caps | 1,611 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans | 1,006 | 26.8 | 44.8 | A+ |
| Berthier-sur-Mer | 1,819 | 48.4 | 77.8 | B+ |
Saint-Joachim sits above 1 of the 2 neighbours with figures of their own. Closest is Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, 15.8 km away, at 26.8 to 42.7 here. Sharing its police with 4 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Joachim among them.
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Saint-Joachim
Is Saint-Joachim safe?
Police-reported crime in Saint-Joachim scores 42.7 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 10.3 violent incidents and 11.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Joachim?
Most often it is assault: 4.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 3.8 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.3.
Is crime going up in Saint-Joachim?
The reverse: 40.3 in 2023 came down to 38.2 by 2025, 5% lower.
How much of Saint-Joachim’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 57% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 78% of violent and 44% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Joachim 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).