Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0For recorded crime, Saint-Paul sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Recorded violent incidents ran at 14.7 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 19.2, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Its letter overall is B− (#345 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 72 to 63.4. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 68.5 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5.
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 behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Joliette MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Paul
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Saint-Paul records 1.4 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 49% of Saint-Paul’s crime, weighted by seriousness (64% of violent crime, 37% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Saint-Paul comes 18th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Paul, 68.5. 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’s behind Saint-Paul’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.
Its place: #345 of 503 in Quebec and #1,340 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Saint-Paul’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Paul runs highest on drug offences (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.7) and sexual assault (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.9). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 67 | 0.9 | 54% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 25.3 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5 | 0.07 | 74% |
| Robbery | 15.3 | 0.2 | 54% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 14 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 24 | 0.3 | 55% |
| Breaking and entering | 129.7 | 1.7 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 19 | 0.3 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 210.7 | 2.8 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 42.7 | 0.6 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 409.3 | 5.5 | 39% |
| Mischief | 188 | 2.5 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 20.3 | 0.3 | 94% |
| Administration of justice violations | 302 | 4 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 27.7 | 0.4 | 88% |
| Drug violations | 106 | 1.4 | 98% |
| Impaired driving | 134.7 | 1.8 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 209.7 | 2.8 | 10% |
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 to 10,000 people.
Saint-Paul, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 72; the lightest was 2025, at 63.4. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Paul | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 70 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 72 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-Paul, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
By its index, Saint-Paul stands 18th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trent Lakes Ontario | 7,357 | 20.6 | 24.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Shannon Quebec | 7,088 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 4 | L'Ange-Gardien Quebec | 7,068 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Saint-Joseph-du-Lac Quebec | 7,391 | 30.8 | 56.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon Quebec | 7,551 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Clarenville Newfoundland and Labrador | 7,441 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| 16 | Kent British Columbia | 7,093 | 65.5 | 97.8 | B− |
| 17 | Portage la Prairie Manitoba | 7,359 | 67.8 | 71.8 | B− |
| 18 | Saint-Paul Quebec | 7,208 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 19 | Chandler Quebec | 7,323 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| 20 | Fernie British Columbia | 7,086 | 69.5 | 65.2 | C+ |
| 21 | Val-des-Sources Quebec | 7,303 | 72.6 | 127.5 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Algoma, Unorganized, North Part Ontario | 7,008 | 302.3 | 509 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Saint-Paul in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 1,090 violent incidents a year in the 75,500-resident police area around Saint-Paul, 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 1,430 a year and other violations 860 (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-Paul
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Paul | 7,208 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Joliette | 22,408 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Crabtree | 4,237 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée | 16,904 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies | 9,622 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Saint-Thomas | 3,477 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé | 1,296 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
The comparison skips 5 neighbours 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. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Paul shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Saint-Paul
Is Saint-Paul safe?
The short answer is an index of 68.5 for Saint-Paul (2023–2025), built from 14.7 violent incidents and 19.2 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Paul?
Most often it is assault: 7.3 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 5.5 and fraud at 5.2.
Is crime going up in Saint-Paul?
It went down 12% between 2023 and 2025, from 72 to 63.4.
How much of Saint-Paul’s crime do police solve?
49%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 64% and non-violent crime at 37%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Paul 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).