Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Saint-Raymond records less crime than 78% of Canadian towns
Its two neighbours with figures both record less crime per resident. On top of that, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 41.3 to 44.1. Police counts work out at 9.8 violent incidents and 10.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical town its size they are 12.0 and 30.5. Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 72 and 34.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Portneuf MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Raymond
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 54% of crime in Saint-Raymond ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 67% of violent crime and 43% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 33%. Questions ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Raymond, 44.5. Towns its size ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Saint-Raymond comes 20th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 72 on Saint-Raymond’s index against 89.4 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 34 against 56. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
How Saint-Raymond comes out at 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.
Its place: #115 of 503 in Quebec and #394 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Which crimes make up Saint-Raymond’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Raymond runs highest on drug offences (1 per 1,000 against 0.8). Motor vehicle theft and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 38 | 0.7 | 69% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 13.7 | 0.2 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 6.3 | 0.1 | 95% |
| Other violent violations | 14 | 0.2 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 83 | 1.4 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 54.7 | 0.9 | 18% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.7 | 0.2 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 123.7 | 2.1 | 44% |
| Mischief | 136.7 | 2.3 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 11 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 150 | 2.6 | 83% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 18.7 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 60.7 | 1 | 86% |
| Impaired driving | 105.3 | 1.8 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 56.7 | 1 | 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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The police area Saint-Raymond is part of, 59,200 residents, recorded about 570 violent incidents a year (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 630 a year and other violations 440 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Saint-Raymond, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 48.2 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 41.3 in 2023. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Raymond | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.1 | 60 |
| 2024 | 48.2 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 41.3 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-Raymond, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Saint-Raymond comes 20th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamilton Ontario | 11,810 | 25.7 | 30.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Cantley Quebec | 12,291 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine Quebec | 12,427 | 32.2 | 50.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Bromont Quebec | 12,413 | 38.1 | 45.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 14 | L'Île-Perrot Quebec | 11,921 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Martensville Saskatchewan | 11,808 | 39.9 | 46.5 | A |
| 18 | Dundalk Ontario | 11,599 | 40.6 | 49.1 | A− |
| 19 | Rideau Lakes Ontario | 12,148 | 44.4 | 80 | A− |
| 20 | Saint-Raymond Quebec | 11,951 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| 21 | Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts Quebec | 12,154 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| 22 | Mont-Tremblant Quebec | 11,879 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| 23 | Blackfalds Alberta | 12,258 | 50.8 | 49.1 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Williams Lake British Columbia | 11,462 | 248.9 | 248.6 | 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-Raymond in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Saint-Raymond
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Raymond | 11,951 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| Saint-Léonard-de-Portneuf | 1,214 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| Saint-Basile | 2,918 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| Fossambault-sur-le-Lac | 2,505 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier | 9,830 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| Pont-Rouge | 11,339 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Saint-Raymond. Closest is Fossambault-sur-le-Lac, 15.5 km away, at 28.2 to 44.5 here. Sharing its police with 3 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Raymond shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. 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.
Questions about safety in Saint-Raymond
Is Saint-Raymond safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint-Raymond at 44.5 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people sit at 66 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 9.8 and property crimes at 10.9 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Raymond?
Top of the list is assault (4.2 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 3.4, and other Criminal Code offences, at 3.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Raymond?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 7%, to 44.1 from 41.3.
How much of Saint-Raymond’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 54% of crime (67% of violent crime, 43% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Raymond 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).