Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc than in 79% of Canadian towns
Behind the grade sit 9.3 violent incidents and 12.6 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+. That puts it at A− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc reported from 2023 to 2025. Of the two halves, violence comes to 60.8 and other offences to 38, beside norms of 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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Maskinongé MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc, yet 34% of its homes are seasonal or empty: the rates run higher than the place feels to the people who live there. How to read it ↓
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc’s police clear 51%, 79% of violent crime and 33% of the rest. Questions ↓
Below Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 44.3 in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc. Towns its size ↓
Heavier than in 2023
Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc’s index went from 37.1 in 2023 to 45.2 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc’s grade
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-Mathieu-du-Parc: up 22%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 50.5; 2023 was lightest, at 37.1. 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-Mathieu-du-Parc | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 50.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 37.1 | 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-Mathieu-du-Parc, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc, by type
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 | 21 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10.7 | 0.3 | 91% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Breaking and entering | 77.3 | 2 | 19% |
| Possession of stolen property | 13 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 72.3 | 1.9 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18.7 | 0.5 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 88.3 | 2.3 | 28% |
| Mischief | 69 | 1.8 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 7.7 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 78.7 | 2 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 0.3 | 77% |
| Drug violations | 28.3 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 66 | 1.7 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 46.7 | 1.2 | 25% |
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.
The police area Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc is part of, 38,800 residents, recorded about 360 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 480 a year and other violations 260 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc | 1,598 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Boniface | 5,405 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Shawinigan | 51,739 | 76 | 113.4 | C+ |
| Saint-Élie-de-Caxton | 2,062 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Charette | 1,178 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
3 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- What clearance means. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc
Is Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 44.3 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc stands, with 9.3 violent and 12.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc?
Assault is the most common, at 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (3.5) and Criminal Code traffic offences (3.4).
Is crime going up in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc?
It has: 37.1 in 2023 became 45.2 by 2025, a rise of 22%.
How much of Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 51% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 79% of violent and 33% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc 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).