Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFewer crimes per resident are recorded in Saint-Simon than in 68% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 70.8 for violence and 41.7 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). On the record of crime the police covering Saint-Simon reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes B+ for safety. Per 1,000 residents a year, 9.7 violent incidents and 14.0 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 48.6 to 45.9.
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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Maskoutains MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Simon
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Saint-Simon (67% violent, 38% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 49.7 in Saint-Simon. 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.
What’s behind Saint-Simon’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.
Crime in Saint-Simon, type by type
Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.00 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 52.7 | 0.6 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 21.3 | 0.2 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.06 | 51% |
| Robbery | 18 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 10.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 20.3 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Breaking and entering | 171.7 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.7 | 0.2 | 79% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 125.7 | 1.3 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 41.7 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 403 | 4.3 | 36% |
| Mischief | 165.7 | 1.8 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 15.7 | 0.2 | 83% |
| Administration of justice violations | 181 | 1.9 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 30.7 | 0.3 | 79% |
| Drug violations | 84.7 | 0.9 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 135 | 1.4 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 216.3 | 2.3 | 11% |
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.
About 910 violent incidents a year across the police area of 94,500 residents that includes Saint-Simon, 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.
And about 1,310 property crimes, plus 730 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Saint-Simon, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (54.6) and 2025 the trough (45.9). For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Simon | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 54.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 48.6 | 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-Simon, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Simon
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Simon | 1,474 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Barnabé-Sud | 1,053 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Hugues | 1,414 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Liboire | 3,123 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot | 1,887 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Hyacinthe | 60,874 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| Upton | 2,149 | 54.1 | 86 | B |
Same police, same number: 5 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Simon shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Simon
Is Saint-Simon safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 49.7 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Saint-Simon stands, with 9.7 violent and 14 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Simon?
Assault is the most common, at 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year, then theft under $5,000 (4.3) and Criminal Code traffic offences (4.1).
Is crime going up in Saint-Simon?
No: the index fell 5%, from 48.6 in 2023 to 45.9 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Simon’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 67% of violent crime and 38% of everything else, 49% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Simon and everywhere else it polices.
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).