Photo: busand2003 · CC BY 3.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Saint-Siméon than in 73% of Canadian towns
In 2023 the index stood at 45; it rose to 49.7 in 2025. Measured on crime the police covering Saint-Siméon reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of B+. Even so, the yearly rates were 12.4 violent incidents and 11.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Split in two, the index gives 75.4 for violence and 37 for everything else (normally 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. Measured across the Avignon/Bonaventure MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Siméon
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 52% for Saint-Siméon (66% violent, 41% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Saint-Siméon scores 75.4 for violence and 37 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Near the Quebec middle
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Siméon, 47.7. 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-Siméon: B+ 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Saint-Siméon, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 49.7; the lightest was 2023, at 45. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Siméon | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 48.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 45 | 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-Siméon, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Saint-Siméon is part of, 30,900 residents, recorded about 380 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.
Add about 360 property crimes and 230 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 Saint-Siméon, type by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 21 | 0.7 | 65% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.7 | 0.2 | 58% |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.10 | — |
| Other violent violations | 10.7 | 0.3 | 59% |
| Breaking and entering | 56.3 | 1.8 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 35 | 1.1 | 24% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6 | 0.2 | 38% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 87.7 | 2.8 | 43% |
| Mischief | 70.7 | 2.3 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 7.7 | 0.2 | 74% |
| Administration of justice violations | 82 | 2.7 | 88% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 17 | 0.6 | 66% |
| Drug violations | 34.3 | 1.1 | 59% |
| Impaired driving | 36 | 1.2 | 83% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 30 | 1 | 21% |
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.
Crime in the places around Saint-Siméon
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Siméon | 1,254 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| Caplan | 1,961 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| Bonaventure | 2,719 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Siméon shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
Questions about safety in Saint-Siméon
Is Saint-Siméon safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Saint-Siméon’s Crime Severity Index stands at 47.7 for 2023–2025. Its police record 12.4 violent incidents and 11.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Siméon?
Police record assault most, 5.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (3.8) and theft under $5,000 (2.8).
Is crime going up in Saint-Siméon?
Up 11%: 45 in 2023, 49.7 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Siméon’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 52% of crime (66% of violent crime, 41% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Siméon 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).