Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Michel-du-Squatec has less crime per resident than 63% of Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 53.8 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. For every 1,000 residents, 13.5 violent incidents and 12.1 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. A Safety Grade of B follows from crime the police covering Saint-Michel-du-Squatec reported over the years 2023 to 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Témiscouata MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Michel-du-Squatec
A high clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Michel-du-Squatec’s police clear 56%, 69% of violent crime and 47% of the rest. Questions ↓
Lighter than in 2023
Saint-Michel-du-Squatec’s index went from 56.4 in 2023 to 45.4 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
The violent half stands out
Saint-Michel-du-Squatec’s index splits into violent crime, 81.1 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 43.4 against 62.8. By type ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Michel-du-Squatec scores 53.8. 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-Michel-du-Squatec: B 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-Michel-du-Squatec: down 19%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 59.6, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 45.4. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Michel-du-Squatec | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 59.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 56.4 | 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-Michel-du-Squatec, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 270 violent incidents a year across the police area of 20,000 residents that includes Saint-Michel-du-Squatec, 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 240 a year and other violations 190 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
What police record in Saint-Michel-du-Squatec, by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 12.3 | 0.6 | 46% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 8.3 | 0.4 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 44 | 2.2 | 34% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16.7 | 0.8 | 50% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 41.7 | 2.1 | 41% |
| Mischief | 47.7 | 2.4 | 36% |
| Weapons violations | 10.7 | 0.5 | 93% |
| Administration of justice violations | 61 | 3.1 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.3 | 0.3 | 48% |
| Drug violations | 26.3 | 1.3 | 87% |
| Impaired driving | 35.3 | 1.8 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 21 | 1.1 | 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.
Crime in the places around Saint-Michel-du-Squatec
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Michel-du-Squatec | 1,053 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Saint-Cyprien (23 km) | 1,090 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac (27 km) | 5,194 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Saint-Jean-de-Dieu (28 km) | 1,697 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Saint-Michel-du-Squatec. Closest is Saint-Cyprien, 23.5 km away, at 48.3 to 53.8 here. One neighbour is on the same police service or detachment, so it shares the figure and isn’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Saint-Michel-du-Squatec with figures are 23–28 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Michel-du-Squatec shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Saint-Michel-du-Squatec
Is Saint-Michel-du-Squatec safe?
Police-reported crime in Saint-Michel-du-Squatec scores 53.8 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 13.5 violent incidents and 12.1 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-Michel-du-Squatec?
Top of the list is assault (6.2 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 4.2, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.8, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Michel-du-Squatec?
The reverse: 56.4 in 2023 came down to 45.4 by 2025, 19% lower.
How much of Saint-Michel-du-Squatec’s crime do police solve?
56%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 69% and non-violent crime at 47%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Michel-du-Squatec and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).