Photo: ChristianT · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Prime has more crime per resident than 62% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 66.6 to 75.4. For every 1,000 residents, 19.7 violent incidents and 18.4 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical town its size, the figures are 12.9 and 31.2. Counting crime the police covering Saint-Prime reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C+ for safety: #379 of 503 in Quebec. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 73.3 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. Measured across the Domaine-du-Roy MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Prime
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Saint-Prime records 3.6 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 ↓
Police clear more here
Police cleared 59% of Saint-Prime’s crime, weighted by seriousness (73% of violent crime, 49% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 73.3 in Saint-Prime. Towns its size ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Saint-Prime stands 24th, the lowest first. 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-Prime: C+ 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.
Its place: #379 of 503 in Quebec and #1,555 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-Prime’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Prime runs highest on drug offences (3.6 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (9.6 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 21.7 | 0.7 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 18.3 | 0.6 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Other violent violations | 22.3 | 0.8 | 73% |
| Breaking and entering | 84.3 | 2.9 | 35% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.3 | 0.3 | 82% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 54.3 | 1.9 | 26% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 14.3 | 0.5 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 151.7 | 5.2 | 55% |
| Mischief | 78.3 | 2.7 | 40% |
| Weapons violations | 10.7 | 0.4 | 84% |
| Administration of justice violations | 93.7 | 3.2 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 0.5 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 104.3 | 3.6 | 57% |
| Impaired driving | 65.3 | 2.2 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 51 | 1.7 | 27% |
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-Prime, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 78; 2023 was the lightest, at 66.6. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Prime | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 78 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 66.6 | 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-Prime, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Among 40 towns its size, Saint-Prime places 24th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perry Ontario | 2,866 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| 2 | Saint-Elzéar Quebec | 2,842 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 3 | Rivière-Beaudette Quebec | 2,806 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Laurier-Station Quebec | 2,838 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| 7 | Yamachiche Quebec | 2,801 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 21 | Forestville Quebec | 2,835 | 72.5 | 127.6 | C+ |
| 22 | Bedford Quebec | 2,845 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| 23 | Ferme-Neuve Quebec | 2,816 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| 24 | Saint-Prime Quebec | 2,808 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| 25 | Gore Quebec | 2,756 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| 26 | Little Current Ontario | 2,764 | 81.9 | 109 | C |
| 27 | Victoria County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 2,746 | 82.8 | 120.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Kuujjuaq Quebec | 2,766 | 805.8 | 2,056.5 | 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-Prime in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
29,200 residents, about 580 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Prime belongs to, 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 540 property crimes and 370 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Prime
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Prime | 2,808 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| Mashteuiatsh | 2,074 | 191.7 | 436.6 | D |
| Saint-Félicien | 10,143 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| Roberval | 9,828 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “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 reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Prime among them.
Questions about safety in Saint-Prime
Is Saint-Prime safe?
The short answer is an index of 73.3 for Saint-Prime (2023–2025), built from 19.7 violent incidents and 18.4 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Prime?
Top of the list is assault (9.6 per 1,000 residents a year); theft under $5,000, at 5.2, and fraud, at 4.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Prime?
It went up 13% between 2023 and 2025, from 66.6 to 75.4.
How much of Saint-Prime’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 59% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 73% of violent and 49% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Prime 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).