Photo: Guillaumelandry · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Pacôme records less crime per resident than 82% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 72 for violence and 31 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). The index held steady between 2023 (42.1) and 2025 (40.2). Its Safety Grade is A−, on crime the police covering Saint-Pacôme reported from 2023 to 2025. What’s more, the local count comes to 11.1 violent incidents and 9.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. Shared with the rest of the Kamouraska MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Pacôme
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Pacôme’s police clear 58%, 71% of violent crime and 46% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Saint-Pacôme’s index splits into violent crime, 72 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 31 against 62.8. By type ↓
Below Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 42.5 in Saint-Pacôme. 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.
What sits behind Saint-Pacôme’s A−
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 240 violent incidents a year in the 21,500-resident police area around Saint-Pacôme, 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 210 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-Pacôme, 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 | 12.7 | 0.6 | 57% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.2 | 86% |
| Other violent violations | 6.3 | 0.3 | 84% |
| Breaking and entering | 32 | 1.5 | 41% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13.7 | 0.6 | 42% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 49 | 2.3 | 43% |
| Mischief | 42 | 2 | 32% |
| Weapons violations | 11.7 | 0.5 | 79% |
| Administration of justice violations | 43.7 | 2 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Drug violations | 16.3 | 0.8 | 72% |
| Impaired driving | 38.7 | 1.8 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 27 | 1.3 | 22% |
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-Pacôme, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 45.1, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 40.2. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Pacôme | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 45.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 42.1 | 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-Pacôme, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Pacôme
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Pacôme | 1,540 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| Rivière-Ouelle | 1,014 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière | 1,635 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| La Pocatière | 4,206 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| Mont-Carmel | 1,191 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| Saint-Pascal | 3,516 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
5 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Pacôme shares it with its neighbours.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Saint-Pacôme
Is Saint-Pacôme safe?
The short answer is an index of 42.5 for Saint-Pacôme (2023–2025), built from 11.1 violent incidents and 9.8 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Pacôme?
Assault is the most common, at 4.8 per 1,000 residents a year, then Criminal Code traffic offences (3.7) and fraud (3).
Is crime going up in Saint-Pacôme?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 42.1 to 40.2.
How much of Saint-Pacôme’s crime do police solve?
58%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 71% and non-violent crime at 46%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Pacôme 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).