Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Ubalde has less crime per resident than 78% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 72 and its non-violent half to 34, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Saint-Ubalde reported put it at A− for safety. Each year brought 9.8 violent incidents and 10.9 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). In 2023 the index stood at 41.3; it rose to 44.1 in 2025.
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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Portneuf MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Ubalde
A busy place, counted per resident
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Saint-Ubalde, yet 30% of its homes are seasonal or empty: the rates run higher than the place feels to the people who live there. How to read it ↓
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 54% of Saint-Ubalde’s crime, weighted by seriousness (67% of violent crime, 43% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Under the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Ubalde scores 44.5. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on violence
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Saint-Ubalde’s two halves part ways: 72 for violence (typical 86.4) and 34 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Saint-Ubalde: A− 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-Ubalde’s crime by kind
Fraud and assault 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 2,500 people or more.
59,200 residents, about 570 violent incidents a year: the police area Saint-Ubalde 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 630 property crimes and 440 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Saint-Ubalde, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 48.2, with 2023 the lightest at 41.3. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Ubalde | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 48.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 41.3 | 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-Ubalde, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint-Ubalde
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Ubalde | 1,565 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| Saint-Alban | 1,264 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| Saint-Casimir | 1,506 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| Lac-aux-Sables | 1,463 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Saint-Marc-des-Carrières | 2,961 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
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
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Ubalde among them.
Questions about safety in Saint-Ubalde
Is Saint-Ubalde safe?
Its police recorded 9.8 violent incidents and 10.9 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Saint-Ubalde a Crime Severity Index of 44.5. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Ubalde?
Most often it is assault: 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 3.4 and other Criminal Code offences at 3.3.
Is crime going up in Saint-Ubalde?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 7%, to 44.1 from 41.3.
How much of Saint-Ubalde’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 of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Ubalde 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).