Photo: Charny · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Ulric sees less crime per resident than 63% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 85.4 and 41.8. The index held steady between 2023 (53.6) and 2025 (55.7). Counting crime the police covering Saint-Ulric reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B for safety. Year on year, 15.3 violent incidents and 13.6 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Matane MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Ulric
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 59% of crime in Saint-Ulric ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 76% of violent crime and 47% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 85.4 on Saint-Ulric’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 41.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Near the Quebec middle
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Ulric, 53.9. 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-Ulric’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 14 km from Saint-Ulric, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
Which crimes make up Saint-Ulric’s figures
Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 10.7 | 0.5 | 59% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 65% |
| Breaking and entering | 42.7 | 2 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 18.3 | 0.9 | 44% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10 | 0.5 | 27% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 79 | 3.7 | 51% |
| Mischief | 48.7 | 2.3 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 11.3 | 0.5 | 97% |
| Administration of justice violations | 69 | 3.3 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.3 | 0.4 | 57% |
| Drug violations | 19.7 | 0.9 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 38.7 | 1.8 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 44.3 | 2.1 | 16% |
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.
Saint-Ulric, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 55.7, and 2024 lowest at 52.5. Set beside it, 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-Ulric | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 52.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 53.6 | 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-Ulric, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment nearest Saint-Ulric, 21,200 residents: around 330 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 290 property crimes and 210 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-Ulric
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Ulric | 1,658 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
| Matane (14 km) | 14,180 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
| Sayabec (25 km) | 1,763 | 53.7 | 103.9 | B |
| Sainte-Félicité (29 km) | 1,053 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
2 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 14–29 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Saint-Ulric.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Ulric among them.
- What 100 means. 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-Ulric
Is Saint-Ulric safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint-Ulric at 53.9 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 15.3 and property crimes at 13.6 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Ulric?
The three biggest groups are assault at 6.2, Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.5 and other Criminal Code offences at 4.4, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Ulric?
Not much: the index went from 53.6 in 2023 to 55.7 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Ulric’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 59% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 76% of violent crime and 47% of the rest, 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-Ulric 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).