Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0Per resident, Saint-Lucien records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index averaged 72.2 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Add to that, the overall Safety Grade is C+, which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 18.0 violent incidents and 19.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Steady over the three years, the index read 74.7 in 2023 and 72.3 in 2025.
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 Drummond MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Lucien
Heavier on violence
Saint-Lucien’s index splits into violent crime, 124.7 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 51.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Lucien’s police clear 49%, 63% of violent crime and 35% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Saint-Lucien’s index of 72.2 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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-Lucien: C+ 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.
What police record in Saint-Lucien, by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Lucien runs highest on assault (8.9 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit 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-Lucien, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 74.7, against a low of 69.4 in 2024. 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-Lucien | 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-Lucien, 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-Lucien, 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 2,220 property crimes and 1,200 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-Lucien
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Lucien | 1,941 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover | 5,242 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Drummondville | 85,560 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| L'Avenir | 1,456 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey | 1,550 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil | 1,950 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton | 1,647 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
5 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Lucien alone.
Questions about safety in Saint-Lucien
Is Saint-Lucien safe?
Saint-Lucien’s Crime Severity Index is 72.2 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 18 violent incidents and 19.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Lucien?
The three biggest groups are assault at 8.9, fraud at 5.5 and theft under $5,000 at 5.3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Lucien?
The index stayed close to where it was, 74.7 in 2023 and 72.3 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Lucien’s crime do police solve?
49%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 63% and non-violent crime at 35%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Lucien 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).