Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Saint-Ludger than in 71% of Canadian towns
Its letter for safety is B+, worked out from crime the police covering Saint-Ludger reported over 2023 to 2025. Split in two, the index gives 81.3 for violence and 35.6 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Recorded violent incidents ran at 12.9 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 10.3, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Granit MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Ludger
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Ludger’s police clear 52%, 67% of violent crime and 39% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Saint-Ludger’s index splits into violent crime, 81.3 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 35.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Ludger scores 48.4. 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 B+ for Saint-Ludger, and how it is built
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.
22,700 residents, about 290 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Ludger 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 230 property crimes and 160 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
What police record in Saint-Ludger, by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 16.7 | 0.7 | 48% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 15 | 0.7 | 65% |
| Breaking and entering | 30 | 1.3 | 34% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.3 | 40% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.3 | 0.9 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5 | 0.2 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39 | 1.7 | 44% |
| Mischief | 46 | 2 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 7.3 | 0.3 | 86% |
| Administration of justice violations | 40 | 1.8 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 0.3 | 94% |
| Drug violations | 27.7 | 1.2 | 51% |
| Impaired driving | 33.7 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 22 | 1 | 9% |
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.
In Saint-Ludger, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (52) and 2025 the trough (46.2). 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-Ludger | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 52 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 47 | 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-Ludger, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Ludger
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Ludger | 1,091 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Lac-Drolet | 1,066 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce | 2,136 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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. 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-Ludger alone.
Questions about safety in Saint-Ludger
Is Saint-Ludger safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Saint-Ludger comes to 48.4. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 12.9 violent incidents and 10.3 property crimes. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Ludger?
Assault is the most common, at 5.4 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (3.8) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.8).
Is crime going up in Saint-Ludger?
Barely: 47 in 2023, 46.2 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Ludger’s crime do police solve?
52%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 67% and non-violent crime at 39%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Ludger 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).