Photo: Miguel Tremblay · CC0Saint-Zénon is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Split in two, the index gives 87.6 for violence and 46 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Saint-Zénon at B: close to the middle of Canadian towns. Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 61.4 in 2023 to 53.7 by 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 10.8 violent incidents and 14.7 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Matawinie MRC.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Zénon
Visitors count, residents divide
With 47% of its homes not lived in all year, Saint-Zénon counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 43% of Saint-Zénon’s crime, weighted by seriousness (59% of violent crime, 32% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Saint-Zénon’s two halves part ways: 87.6 for violence (typical 86.4) and 46 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Near the Quebec middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Zénon scores 57.5. 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.
The B for Saint-Zénon, and how it is built
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-Zénon, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 61.4; the lightest was 2025, at 53.7. 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-Zénon | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 57.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 61.4 | 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-Zénon, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Saint-Zénon’s crime by kind
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 44.3 | 0.8 | 49% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 15.3 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.09 | 75% |
| Robbery | 6.3 | 0.1 | 75% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.09 | 80% |
| Other violent violations | 16 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Breaking and entering | 131.3 | 2.3 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 46 | 0.8 | 65% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 174 | 3 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 41.3 | 0.7 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 144.7 | 2.5 | 23% |
| Mischief | 96.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 19.3 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 92 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16.7 | 0.3 | 60% |
| Drug violations | 48 | 0.8 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 123 | 2.1 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 75 | 1.3 | 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.
Around 620 violent incidents a year in the 58,800-resident police area around Saint-Zénon, 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 840 property crimes, plus 420 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-Zénon
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Zénon | 1,435 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Michel-des-Saints (13 km) | 2,841 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Côme (33 km) | 2,810 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie (34 km) | 1,856 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-Damien (35 km) | 2,569 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci (39 km) | 1,154 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
The table leaves out 5 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 13–39 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Saint-Zénon.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “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-Zénon among them.
- The index’s scale. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Saint-Zénon
Is Saint-Zénon safe?
Police-reported crime in Saint-Zénon scores 57.5 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 10.8 violent incidents and 14.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Zénon?
The three biggest groups are assault at 5.4, Criminal Code traffic offences at 4 and motor vehicle theft at 3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Zénon?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 13%, to 53.7 from 61.4.
How much of Saint-Zénon’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 43% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 59% of violent and 32% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Zénon 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).