Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Saint-Valère than in 61% of Canadian towns
By 2025 the index had dropped to 51.6, down from 54.6 in 2023. Still, recorded violent incidents ran at 14.7 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 16.3, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. That puts it at B for safety, judged on crime the police covering Saint-Valère reported from 2023 to 2025. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 55 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2.
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Arthabaska MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Valère
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Valère’s police clear 50%, 65% of violent crime and 37% of the rest. Questions ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Valère, 55. Towns its size ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Saint-Valère’s index splits into violent crime, 86.5 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 42.9 against 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-Valère: 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.
What police record in Saint-Valère, by type
Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 56.7 | 0.7 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 21 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.07 | 89% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 11.3 | 0.1 | 91% |
| Other violent violations | 29 | 0.4 | 63% |
| Breaking and entering | 125.7 | 1.6 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.3 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 111.7 | 1.4 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 24 | 0.3 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 383.7 | 5 | 44% |
| Mischief | 177 | 2.3 | 31% |
| Weapons violations | 14.3 | 0.2 | 89% |
| Administration of justice violations | 228.3 | 3 | 82% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 26 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Drug violations | 88.3 | 1.1 | 76% |
| Impaired driving | 158.3 | 2.1 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 149 | 1.9 | 9% |
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-Valère, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 58.8; 2025 was the lightest, at 51.6. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Valère | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 58.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 54.6 | 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-Valère, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 1,130 violent incidents a year across the police area of 77,600 residents that includes Saint-Valère, 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 1,250 property crimes, plus 710 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Valère
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Valère | 1,187 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Saint-Albert | 1,744 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Victoriaville | 49,863 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska | 3,307 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Warwick | 4,939 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| Sainte-Eulalie | 1,056 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton | 1,647 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
The comparison skips 5 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Saint-Valère shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Valère
Is Saint-Valère safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Saint-Valère’s Crime Severity Index stands at 55 for 2023–2025. Its police record 14.7 violent incidents and 16.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Valère?
Top of the list is assault (7.1 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 5.1, and theft under $5,000, at 5, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Valère?
Down 6%: 54.6 in 2023, 51.6 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Valère’s crime do police solve?
50%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 65% and non-violent crime at 37%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Valère 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).