Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Zacharie sees less crime per resident than 95% of Canadian towns
Annual rates stand at 7.4 violent incidents and 8.1 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its violent half comes to 48.9 and its non-violent half to 23.9, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Saint-Zacharie reported put it at A+ for safety.
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 for the Etchemins MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Zacharie
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Saint-Zacharie’s police clear 59%, 79% of violent crime and 43% of the rest. Questions ↓
Lighter than Quebec’s middle
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Saint-Zacharie, 30.8. Towns its size ↓
Lighter than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Saint-Zacharie stood at 33.3, by 2025 at 28. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
The violent half stands out
Saint-Zacharie’s index splits into violent crime, 48.9 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 23.9 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.
Inside Saint-Zacharie’s A+ for safety
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-Zacharie, by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.10 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 23.3 | 1.3 | 40% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13 | 0.7 | 21% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 24.3 | 1.4 | 41% |
| Mischief | 19.3 | 1.1 | 41% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Administration of justice violations | 26.3 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 4.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Impaired driving | 16.3 | 0.9 | 86% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 13.3 | 0.8 | 25% |
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-Zacharie’s index fell 16% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 33.3 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 28. 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-Zacharie | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 31.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 33.3 | 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-Zacharie, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Saint-Zacharie is part of, 17,700 residents, recorded about 130 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.
And about 140 property crimes, plus 79 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-Zacharie
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Zacharie | 1,674 | 30.8 | 48.9 | A+ |
| Saint-Côme--Linière | 3,435 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Saint-Prosper | 4,042 | 30.8 | 48.9 | A+ |
Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Zacharie among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- What the index measures. 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.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Zacharie
Is Saint-Zacharie safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint-Zacharie at 30.8 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 7.4 and property crimes at 8.1 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Zacharie?
Most often it is assault: 3.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 2.9 and other Criminal Code offences at 2.1.
Is crime going up in Saint-Zacharie?
The reverse: 33.3 in 2023 came down to 28 by 2025, 16% lower.
How much of Saint-Zacharie’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 59% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 79% of violent and 43% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Zacharie 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).