Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Saint-Raphaël than in 85% of Canadian towns
That puts it at A for safety, judged on crime the police covering Saint-Raphaël reported from 2023 to 2025. Violence accounts for an index of 73 and other offences for 26.8, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Per 1,000 residents a year, 8.5 violent incidents and 9.0 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 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. Measured across the Bellechasse MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Raphaël
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 55% of crime in Saint-Raphaël ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 72% of violent crime and 39% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Violent crime scores 73 on Saint-Raphaël’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 26.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
Saint-Raphaël’s index of 39.7 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Rising since 2023
In 2023 the index in Saint-Raphaël stood at 34.9, by 2025 at 42.3. 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-Raphaël’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-Raphaël: up 21%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 42.3 in 2025, having been lowest in 2023 at 34.9. 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-Raphaël | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 42 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 34.9 | 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-Raphaël, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Saint-Raphaël’s figures
Assault and fraud 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 | 19 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 10.3 | 0.3 | 58% |
| Breaking and entering | 57.3 | 1.5 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.1 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 39.3 | 1 | 39% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 0.2 | 34% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 56.7 | 1.4 | 32% |
| Mischief | 58.3 | 1.5 | 32% |
| Weapons violations | 9.7 | 0.2 | 69% |
| Administration of justice violations | 47 | 1.2 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12 | 0.3 | 61% |
| Drug violations | 20.3 | 0.5 | 92% |
| Impaired driving | 68.7 | 1.7 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 28 | 0.7 | 33% |
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.
39,600 residents, about 340 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Raphaël 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 350 property crimes and 200 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-Raphaël
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Raphaël | 2,488 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud | 1,550 | 48.4 | 77.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Vallier | 1,026 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Armagh | 1,437 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Gervais | 2,235 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse | 1,902 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse | 2,739 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 5 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Raphaël 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. 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-Raphaël
Is Saint-Raphaël safe?
Saint-Raphaël’s Crime Severity Index is 39.7 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 8.5 violent incidents and 9 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-Raphaël?
Top of the list is assault (4 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 3, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 2.8, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Raphaël?
It has: 34.9 in 2023 became 42.3 by 2025, a rise of 21%.
How much of Saint-Raphaël’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 55% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 72% of violent crime and 39% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Raphaël 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).