Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0Crime per resident in Saint-Paulin runs lower than in 79% of Canadian towns
Its letter for safety is A−, worked out from crime the police covering Saint-Paulin reported over 2023 to 2025. Out of every 1,000 residents, 9.3 violent incidents and 12.6 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Maskinongé MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Paulin
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 51% of crime in Saint-Paulin ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 79% of violent crime and 33% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Below Quebec’s typical town
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Paulin, 44.3. Towns its size ↓
Up since 2023
In 2023 the index in Saint-Paulin stood at 37.1, by 2025 at 45.2. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went 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-Paulin’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-Paulin: up 22%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 50.5; 2023 was lightest, at 37.1. Set beside it, 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-Paulin | 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-Paulin, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Saint-Paulin’s figures
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.
Around 360 violent incidents a year in the 38,800-resident police area around Saint-Paulin, 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-Paulin
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Paulin | 1,659 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Élie-de-Caxton | 2,062 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Charette | 1,178 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Alexis-des-Monts | 3,190 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Ursule | 1,363 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Barnabé | 1,234 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| Saint-Boniface | 5,405 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
The table leaves out 6 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Paulin alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
Questions about safety in Saint-Paulin
Is Saint-Paulin safe?
Saint-Paulin’s Crime Severity Index is 44.3 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 9.3 violent incidents and 12.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Paulin?
Most often it is assault: 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 3.5 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.4.
Is crime going up in Saint-Paulin?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 22%, to 45.2 from 37.1.
How much of Saint-Paulin’s crime do police solve?
About 51% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 79% of violent and 33% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Paulin 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).