Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Saint-Victor than in 80% of Canadian towns
Its 4 neighbours with figures all record more crime per resident. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 75.8 and 31.6. Counting crime the police covering Saint-Victor reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A− for safety. Year on year, 9.5 violent incidents and 10.6 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Robert-Cliche MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Victor
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 62% of crime in Saint-Victor ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 75% of violent crime and 48% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 75.8 on Saint-Victor’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 31.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Easing since 2023
From 49.8 in 2023 to 40.7 in 2025: that is Saint-Victor’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Below Quebec’s typical town
Saint-Victor’s index of 44 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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-Victor’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.
Year by year in Saint-Victor: down 18%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 49.8; the lightest was 2025, at 40.7. 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-Victor | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 41.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 49.8 | 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-Victor, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Saint-Victor’s figures
Assault and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 10.3 | 0.5 | 55% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7 | 0.4 | 76% |
| Breaking and entering | 25.3 | 1.3 | 40% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13.7 | 0.7 | 36% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5.3 | 0.3 | 43% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 37.7 | 1.9 | 42% |
| Mischief | 42.3 | 2.1 | 39% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 82% |
| Administration of justice violations | 56.7 | 2.9 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 15.7 | 0.8 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 48.3 | 2.4 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 19.3 | 1 | 38% |
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.
The police area Saint-Victor is part of, 20,000 residents, recorded about 190 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.
Property crime adds about 210 a year and other violations 160 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Victor
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Victor | 2,344 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce | 2,575 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Beauceville | 6,228 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Saint-Benoît-Labre | 1,655 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Tring-Jonction | 1,626 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Notre-Dame-des-Pins | 1,935 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| East Broughton | 2,311 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
Saint-Victor has the lowest index of the places around it. 2 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Saint-Victor alone.
- Reading the number. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Victor
Is Saint-Victor safe?
Saint-Victor scores 44 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 9.5 violent incidents and 10.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Victor?
The three biggest groups are fraud at 4.1, Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.8 and assault at 3.7, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Victor?
It went down 18% between 2023 and 2025, from 49.8 to 40.7.
How much of Saint-Victor’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 62% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 75% of violent crime and 48% 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-Victor 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).